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Little Red Cowboy Hat
This whimsical take on Little Red Riding Hood brings new life to an old favorite.
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
June 1st 2000
by Square Fish
(first published 1997)
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I have to say that this book was a delightful surprise. To me, the cover and illustrations are not that inviting. Knowing this was a Red Riding Story set in the Southwest, I expected it to be very predictable and stereotyped. However, it was a wonderful little story that has excellent figurative language and voice in the writing. At the very beginning, Red's hair is described as,"a fine color somewhere between firecrackers and new pennies." From there, as Red starts off on her horse to go to her...more
Here is yet another take of the infamous, Little Red Riding Hood folk tale. This version of the classic tale, (written by Susan Lowell) entitled Little Red Cowboy Hat, will make you feel as if you have been transported into the wild west. The child-like illustrations (created by Randy Cecil) will immediately draw you, and students alike, into the book.
This version starts out similarly to the traditional tale, (except the author has exchanged 'jelly' for 'cactus jelly'!) with Little Red Cowboy H...more
This version starts out similarly to the traditional tale, (except the author has exchanged 'jelly' for 'cactus jelly'!) with Little Red Cowboy H...more
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Little Red Cowboy Hat is a book that would be appropriate for older readers to read independently or younger readers to read with support, as there is a large amount of text in this book and some of the vocabulary could be challenging for a younger reader. Little Red Cowboy Hat is set in the American Southwest and focuses on a young girl who becomes known as "Little Red Cowboy Hat" due to both her bright red hair and her affinity for a large red cowboy hat. Little Red is gi...more
Little Red Cowboy Hat is a book that would be appropriate for older readers to read independently or younger readers to read with support, as there is a large amount of text in this book and some of the vocabulary could be challenging for a younger reader. Little Red Cowboy Hat is set in the American Southwest and focuses on a young girl who becomes known as "Little Red Cowboy Hat" due to both her bright red hair and her affinity for a large red cowboy hat. Little Red is gi...more
I love that the author dedicates this book "To all my favorite redheads." In this version of Little Red Riding Hood, Lowell characterizes "Little Red" as a plucky, red-haired western girl that learns, "A girl's gotta stick up for herself." The Grandma figure is also strong and capable and chases away the wolf on horseback, with a shotgun in her hand. Grandma closes the story with, "That yellow-bellied, snake-blooded, skunk-eyed, rancid son of a parallelogram!...This time he picked the wrong gran...more
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I feel conflicted about this one, even though Simone loves having me read it to her. I'm very familiar with various critiques of the little red riding hood story -- like Susan Brownmiller's take on it as a rape narrative -- and it's true that the aggressive dynamic makes me squirm. I do like this story in which the grandma and granddaughter stick together ("two cowgirls," as Simone says), and I have no idea what it's doing for Simone, other than giving her new vocab around "snake season" and thi...more
I read this with my daughter before bed tonight. The story is really great, as are all Susan Lowell's books... a Southwest, revisionist version of Little Red Riding Hood. The characters were better developed than in the original, and the voices were very fun to read aloud. The illustrations were bright, whimsical and humorous. A great read-aloud with kids.
I enjoyed this take on Little Red Riding Hood more than the original. I read it to my class and they loved it. This could be used to compare a remake to an original.
A Southwestern version of "Little Red Riding Hood" in which Little Red rides her pony Buck to Grandma's ranch with a jar of cactus jelly in the saddlbag.
May 16, 2012
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Spunky retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. She's a cowgirl in this story. And you will love her grandma! Definitely a new favorite here.
LOL!!!!!!LOL!!!!!
SM
this is one of my most favorite read-alouds. i love doing all the voices. and the book is so witty!
Felt more like this was about sexual predators than a wolf--maybe that makes sense. Creepy.
Fun drawings, a plucky heroine, and some good laughs in this one.
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Her family has lived in the American West since Gold Rush days. She and her husband and their two daughters divide their time between Tucson Arizona and a ranch near the Mexican border.
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