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Title: Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm, Karen Schmidt, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ISBN: 0-590-41881-5 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a treasure of a book!
Comment: I am so glad I stumbled on to this version of "Little Red Riding Hood" and that my son and I will be able to enjoy it together for years to come. The illustrations are lush and evocative; the geraniums bloom off the pages and the calico-inspired borders make you want to cover up with a cozy quilt. The retelling is superb, as well, casting Little Red as a spunky yet polite heroine. Every child's personal library needs this story, and this is the best version of this timeless tale I've ever seen.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a PC retelling, thank goodness!
Comment: Trina Hyman's lushly illustrated version of Grimm's tale of a young girl and her grandmother beset by a wickedly ravenous wolf is about as good as this tale gets. Fortunately for the reader, this Red Riding Hood avoids the politically correct fate of so many other modern versions of similar works.
Done with an Arts & Crafts flair, the illustrations are detailed and worthy of the Caldecott Honor award this book received. The text is relegated to a small box on every other page, giving plenty of space to enjoy the drawings.
I don't have the original Grimm text, so I cannot comment on how true to their text this work is. However, I can say that the wolf's snacking on Grandma and Red, plus his gruesome demise, is here in all its glory. Don't tell anyone from PETA.
If you are the kind of parent that loves classic tales wondrously retold, and doesn't want to sugarcoat life, then by all means get this one. It is lovely to look at and has a good moral base--just the way they used to make 'em.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a great version for younger children
Comment: As a teacher, I would not recommend reading this version of Little Red Riding Hood to younger children because I don't think it's suitable for a preschooler, kindergarten, or for a first grader to be listening to the ending: The hunter "raised his gun to shoot but then wondered... so he took out his knife and quickly killed the wolf while he lay sleeping. Then he carefully cut open the wolf's stomach. At the first cut, he saw the red velvet cloak, and after a few more slashes a little girl jumped out."
Also the way this author mentions the deaths: "He ran straight to the bed, and without even saying a good-morning, he ate up the poor old grandmother in one gulp.
"As the wolf said this, he sprang out of bed and ate up poor Little Red Riding Hood!"
I believe the book may be a little more suitable for older kids and it has excellent illustrations. I do recommend reading "Little Red Riding Hood" by Della Rowland. This book has two tales in one. The second tale is called "The Wolf's Tale", where the wolf tells his version of how Little Red Riding Hood actually occured. Della makes the story humorous and also allows you to give children a different perspective of the wolf being a much nicer and funnier character.
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Title: Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ISBN: 0525442650 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Rapunzel (Caldecott Medal Book) by Paul O. Zelinsky, Jacob W. Grimm ISBN: 0525456074 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser, Paul O. Zelinsky ISBN: 0525461523 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach ISBN: 0374418977 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Girl Who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton, Virginia Hamilton, Diane Dillion, Tedd Arnold, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon ISBN: 0590473786 Publisher: Blue Sky Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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