The Fourth Bear
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The Fourth Bear is the sixth novel written by Jasper Fforde and was published in July 2006. It continues the story of Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and is the follow-up to The Big Over Easy.
The plot involves Goldilocks and the Three Bears, extreme cucumbering, and the Gingerbreadman.
[edit] Nursery rhyme/literary references
- Jack Sprat
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
- The Gingerbread Man
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Peter Piper
- Prometheus
- The Tempest
- Punch and Judy
- The Quangle-Wangle's Hat by Edward Lear
- Thursday Next
- Struwwelpeter
[edit] External links
Novels by Jasper Fforde | |
Thursday Next series | |
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The Eyre Affair | Lost in a Good Book | The Well of Lost Plots | Something Rotten | First Among Sequels (due July 2007) | |
Jack Spratt series | |
The Big Over Easy | The Fourth Bear | The Last Great Tortoise Race (due 2007) |