Once upon a time, it was a beautiful day in a fairy-tale village.

Until Godzilla arrived...


STOMP through the story with Godzilla as it roars and wrecks its way through the Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother's house, and Cinderella's ball. Godzilla is destroying the whole village—will it ever STOP, not STOMP?
Katherine Locke (they/them) is the author of The Girl with the Red Balloon, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, as well as The Spy with the Red Balloon. They are the co-editor and contributor to It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes and Other Jewish Stories, a contributor to Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens and Out Now: Queer We Go Again, and co-editor of This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us. They are also the author of the picture books Bedtime for Superheroes and How to Be Friends with a Dragon. View titles by Katherine Locke
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Once upon a time, it was a beautiful day in a fairy-tale village.

Until Godzilla arrived...


STOMP through the story with Godzilla as it roars and wrecks its way through the Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother's house, and Cinderella's ball. Godzilla is destroying the whole village—will it ever STOP, not STOMP?

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Katherine Locke (they/them) is the author of The Girl with the Red Balloon, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, as well as The Spy with the Red Balloon. They are the co-editor and contributor to It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes and Other Jewish Stories, a contributor to Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens and Out Now: Queer We Go Again, and co-editor of This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us. They are also the author of the picture books Bedtime for Superheroes and How to Be Friends with a Dragon. View titles by Katherine Locke

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