Goldilocks and the Three Bears Goldilocks and the Three Bears story was initially titled The Story of the Three Bears, published in the collection English Fairytales, retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922), and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Listen to the story Goldilocks and the three bears once upon a time, there were three bears who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a little small wee bear; one was a middle-sized bear, and the other was a great huge bear; they each had a pot for their porridge, a little pot for the little small wee bear, and a middle-sized pot for the middle bear, and a great pot for the great huge bear; and they each had…