Little Red Riding Hood

Summary: Little Red Riding Hood is about a girl whose mother maded her a red hood to wear. She took a liking to it so well that everyone called her Red Riding Hood. Her grandmother is sick so Little Red's mother tells her to take some food to her grandmother. A wolf spots her leaving and follows her and asks her where she is going. She tells him which house her grandmother will be in and the wolf tells her he is going to take a different path and try to see which is faster. The wolf sped to the grandmothers home, ate her and waited for Little Red Riding Hood. When she arrived, the wolf disguised his voice and told her to open the latch and come in, when she got into bed with her "grandmother", who was the wolf in disguise, the wolf eats her too. The last page of the book is a picture of the wolf sleeping with Little Red Riding Hood in his stomach and a hunter with a gun in the doorway.

Personal Reaction: I was not a fan of this book at all. It was kind of messed up and wrong! Especially considering there was a picture with the wolf holding Red and her head had disappeared in the wolf's mouth. This is definitely not a book I would recommend for children. I am a fan of other versions of the book, the ones that shelter children more.

Classroom Extension: The only thing I could see this book useful for, would be the foreshadowing at the end of the book. You can imply that the hunter is going to kill the sleeping wolf, or that the hunter will be eaten eventually by the wolf because the hunter is not facing the wolf completely. ( )

A dark and twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood. It uses real photographs set in a cityscape. It is a completely different version of this traditional tale. It is scary and disturbing. It would not recommend this to be read to young children.

A dark version of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Has pictures instead of illustrations but only on every other page. I wouldn't recommend reading it to young children because I think it might give them nightmares. ( )

Published by Creative Editions, this is definitely not a children's picture book. The photography is amazing and tells the story as it was before publishers cleaned it up for children: creepily sexual. ( )