Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney

Title: Little Red Riding Hood
Author/Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Genre: Fairy Tale
Age: 3-6

This story is about a sweet, little girl who goes to visit her grandmother because she is sick. Her mother told her to go and check on her and take some chicken soup and raisin muffins to hopefully help her feel better. Her mother had made her a red hood, which she loved very much and every in their town knew who she was. As she goes out to visit her grandmother she's on a trail and his approached by a wolf who was hungry and sly. He asked her where she was going and she told him exactly where her grandmother's house was and the wolf thought it would be a good idea for the little girl to gather some twigs to prepare a fire for her grandmother. When he told her he joined, but got an even better idea that he would go to the grandmother's house and pretend to be the granddaughter so she let him not knowing it was the sly wolf. Once the wolf was inside he swallowed the grandmother and found some of her other nightgowns and hopped into bed pretending to be her as he waited for the granddaughter to arrive. Once the granddaughter arrived and came in, she noticed a few features about her grandmother that were different, such as her having hairy arms, or big ears, and great eyes she had, she even noticed the teeth and the wolf said they were perfect for him to eat her with. Then he swallowed her whole and took a long nap. While he was  sleeping he was snoring very loudly and one of the woodcutters who was passing by noticed the two sets of footprints, that of the little girl and the other of a large creature so he thought that something was wrong. He carefully went into the house and noticed the large wolf in the bed and noticed it had a large belly. He went to get an ax and killed the wolf, and used the grandmother's sewing shears to cut open the stomach of the wolf, where he found the grandmother and granddaughter. Once free from the stomach of the wolf, they ate the chicken soup and raisin muffins the mother had made and the grandmother told her to hurry home and to go straight there, and she did.

I think this book would be a cute story for children to hear. It's not only a classic read, but children may relate to their parents telling them to do something, although they won't be distracted/attacked by a wolf, but they can understand how it's important to do something and stick to that if it's really important. I also think this story is cute and just an enjoyable story, and it's great to see the woodcutter save the day, by freeing the grandmother and granddaughter from the wolf's belly. I think this could be incorporated into a lesson on literacy.  The students could compare different variations of the story and see what's different about them.
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