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Little Red Riding Hood/the Wolf's Tale
After reading the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood, the reader is invited to turn the book upside down and read an updated version in which Little Red Riding Hood chastises the wolf for his eating habits and forces him to try rice cakes, beets, and broccoli.
- GenresPicture BooksFriendship
19 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 1991
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February 11, 2010
This book, written by Della Rowland and illustrated by Michael Montgomery, is actually two books in one, part of the Upside Down Tales. The first story is the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood who is going to visit her sick grandmother. On the way she encounters a wolf who gets her to wander into the woods to pick flowers for her grandmother, while he continues on and eats her up. When Little Red Riding Hood Shows up, he does the same to her only to be saved by the woodsman. After finishing this story, you flip the book over and upside down to find The Wolf's Tale in which the the Wolf tells his version of the tale. In his version he is being forced to eat a vegetarian diet by Little Red Riding Hood. Looking for meat in Grandma's house, while she was out of course, Little Red comes to the door and he has to hide, in her bed of course. The story continues from the wolf's perspective and we learn how he is eventually chased out of town.
This book would be great for comparing and contrasting the different view points of the characters. The stories are longer than many other versions, so with younger students you couldn't do them in the same sittting.
This book would be great for comparing and contrasting the different view points of the characters. The stories are longer than many other versions, so with younger students you couldn't do them in the same sittting.
November 29, 2017
Love this version of the Little Red Riding Hood. It would be great to compare all the versions and make charts in class!
February 25, 2016
Little Red Riding Hood (1991) by Della Rowland, Pictures by Michael Montgomery, Fiction
This interesting version of "Little Red Riding Hood," actually has 2 versions of the famous tale.
The reader gets to hear "Little Red Riding Hood's" version, and you flip the book upside down, and the "Wolf's" version is told. From "Little Red Riding Hood's" point of view, the traditional story sticks to the original sequence of events. Basically, "Little Red Riding Hood" is walking through the forest when she meets up with the "Wolf," and tells him where she is headed (to Grandma's house). Despite what her mother told her, "Little Red Riding Hood" talks to the "Wolf," which leads to her demise, as the "Wolf" diverts her from the normal path. "Wolf" gets to Granny"s before "Little Red Riding Hood," and gobbles up Granny, changes into her clothes and awaits for "Little Red Riding Hood." He Tricks her once again into coming closer and closer to him until he gobbles her up too.
The "Wolf's story is quite different. He claims that he only wanted the chicken she had in her basket, (She says she had honey cakes in the basket). He diverts her to go pick flowers while he steals and starts to gobble the chicken up, and surprisingly, she catches him in the act. She continues catching him trying to steal chickens, so she traps him in a couple of different ways, and forces him to eat foods he doesn't like. He eventually sneaks his way into Granny's room, and changes into her clothes. George Hunter walks in on the "Wolf," figures out who he is, and threatens to shoot him for killing "Red" and Granny, but "Red" and Granny were just fine outside the house. Hunter George slips and falls to the floor as his gun goes off shooting the ceiling, and "Wolf" uses this opportunity to make his getaway and he does. The story goes down and passes around that the "Bad Wolf" had eaten "Red" and Granny, and escapes the hunter. He was deemed a hero, and all the other wolves looked up to him, and continued bringing chicken to him whenever he wanted. "Wolf" hopes the true story never gets out, because then he'd have to hunt his own chicken like a respectable wolf!
The illustrator uses several different styles in the images throughout the book. They are water color pictures with bright colors. He has quite a few illustrations that wrap around the lengthy text boxes. A few of the pictures are framed and on the opposite page of the text. Some of them have circle or oval shapes fading into the image itself. The pictures themselves do definitely show a great deal of expression on characters faces, and the backgrounds give the reader an idea of where the specific events are taking place. However, The text is useful in this story as the pictures do not depict everything taking place. They do stick to parts of the events going on, but do not tell the whole story.
In conclusion, I found this book to be very entertaining! The two stories incorporated into one book by a "flip the book upside down," idea is very creative and fun. The illustrator does an excellent job with expression, and some of the pictures are quite humorous. I would recommend it to children of all ages. The creativity of the book and the format will definitely draw the kids in to see what it's all about.
This interesting version of "Little Red Riding Hood," actually has 2 versions of the famous tale.
The reader gets to hear "Little Red Riding Hood's" version, and you flip the book upside down, and the "Wolf's" version is told. From "Little Red Riding Hood's" point of view, the traditional story sticks to the original sequence of events. Basically, "Little Red Riding Hood" is walking through the forest when she meets up with the "Wolf," and tells him where she is headed (to Grandma's house). Despite what her mother told her, "Little Red Riding Hood" talks to the "Wolf," which leads to her demise, as the "Wolf" diverts her from the normal path. "Wolf" gets to Granny"s before "Little Red Riding Hood," and gobbles up Granny, changes into her clothes and awaits for "Little Red Riding Hood." He Tricks her once again into coming closer and closer to him until he gobbles her up too.
The "Wolf's story is quite different. He claims that he only wanted the chicken she had in her basket, (She says she had honey cakes in the basket). He diverts her to go pick flowers while he steals and starts to gobble the chicken up, and surprisingly, she catches him in the act. She continues catching him trying to steal chickens, so she traps him in a couple of different ways, and forces him to eat foods he doesn't like. He eventually sneaks his way into Granny's room, and changes into her clothes. George Hunter walks in on the "Wolf," figures out who he is, and threatens to shoot him for killing "Red" and Granny, but "Red" and Granny were just fine outside the house. Hunter George slips and falls to the floor as his gun goes off shooting the ceiling, and "Wolf" uses this opportunity to make his getaway and he does. The story goes down and passes around that the "Bad Wolf" had eaten "Red" and Granny, and escapes the hunter. He was deemed a hero, and all the other wolves looked up to him, and continued bringing chicken to him whenever he wanted. "Wolf" hopes the true story never gets out, because then he'd have to hunt his own chicken like a respectable wolf!
The illustrator uses several different styles in the images throughout the book. They are water color pictures with bright colors. He has quite a few illustrations that wrap around the lengthy text boxes. A few of the pictures are framed and on the opposite page of the text. Some of them have circle or oval shapes fading into the image itself. The pictures themselves do definitely show a great deal of expression on characters faces, and the backgrounds give the reader an idea of where the specific events are taking place. However, The text is useful in this story as the pictures do not depict everything taking place. They do stick to parts of the events going on, but do not tell the whole story.
In conclusion, I found this book to be very entertaining! The two stories incorporated into one book by a "flip the book upside down," idea is very creative and fun. The illustrator does an excellent job with expression, and some of the pictures are quite humorous. I would recommend it to children of all ages. The creativity of the book and the format will definitely draw the kids in to see what it's all about.
October 12, 2009
The book is two books in one. One version is the original tale and the other is written in the wolf's point of view. The story is filled with text and great for 2nd-3rd grade reading level. In this story, the wolf admits to loving chicken to eat, not humans. He explains how Little Red had been the one to play tricks on him and tried to get him to eat all these different foods instead of chicken. Of course this was become wolf was eating all of grandma's chickens! :) She constantly traps wolf and brings him food that wolf strongly dislikes. Finally, wolf decides to move away, tired of Little Reds attempts to make him eat foods other than chicken. In this attempt he consequentiality runs into Red and is scared so much by her runs into Granny's house and pretends to be her. At the same time, George the hunter, comes in embarrassing wolf (since he was in a Granny's nightgown), but manages to run away before his dreadful fate.
I enjoyed how this story was written with dialogue included in the eyes of the wolf. It gives it a peculiar spin that children will enjoy.
I enjoyed how this story was written with dialogue included in the eyes of the wolf. It gives it a peculiar spin that children will enjoy.
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