Mario Ramos (1) (1958–2012)

A pretty standard retelling of Little Red Riding Hood randomly starts inserting characters from other fairy tales near the end and then just stops so abruptly that I found myself rubbing the last page between between my fingers and prying at it with my fingernails sure that another page must be stuck to it with the real ending. Blechhh.

A conceited wolf strolls through the forest, coercing everyone he meets (Little Red Riding Hood, the Seven Dwarves, Snow White, etc.) to praise him as the handsomest...until he meets a baby dragon, who says that his father is the handsomest. "He taught me to do this!" and breathes fire, singeing off most of the wolf's fine fur.

This book is about a prideful and arrogant wolf. He knows he is bad and strong and just wants to hear it from everyone in the woods. He goes around asking every small animal he sees who’s the strongest in the woods and they all so frightened say it’s him. Until this one small toad of some kind was asked and said his mother was the strongest. The wolf got angry and asked him again. That is when the small animals mother showed up, the dragon. The wolf quickly humbled himself and backed show more away. I liked how the author used good tone and language in the character. The animals that were scared sounded scared and when the wolf got angry, he used mean words. This book teaches a lesson on how not to be so prideful and but to be humble because one might not always be the “best” or “strongest. show less

A silly story where the wolf gets trapped in Grandma's nightie and everyone insists that he's grandma. Luckily, after encountering characters from many other fairy tales, finally Little Red comes to his rescue.