Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.
When the little girl in the red cap puts her basket over her arm and sets off through the woods to grandmother's house, one of the best-loved fairy tales of all time unfolds. Long out of print, this classic version of the tale will be enjoyed by all who love beautiful books. A New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Full color.
Whilst leaving footpaths should never be done, Straying from stories is all sorts of fun! Little Red Reading Hood loves reading books and making up stories of her own. When she meets a cunning wolf while on her way to the library, he convinces her to stray from the path and read for a little while. But hasn’t she read this in a story before? Perhaps it’s time she came up with a new ending . . . This is a contemporary and fun take on the classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, created by an incredible picture book partnership. With a playful rhyming story by Lucy Rowland and Ben Mantle's entertaining illustrations, Little Red Reading Hood will inspire children, and adults, about the magic of books and reading.
Patricia DeLisa brings us a beautifully illustrated and important contribution to the literature of fairy tales. In his insightful commentary, Andrew Flaxman helps us understand the deeper meaning behind this story and fairy tales in general.
When Little Red arrives at Grandma's house, Grandma doesn't look like herself at all. She has big ears, hairy arms, and those teeth! What has happened to Grandma? Features pop-up pages, flaps to lift, and cut-outs throughout!
"Alan Dundes of the University of California, Berkeley, continues his exploration of well-loved fairy tales with this casebook on one of the best-known of them all: Little Red Riding Hood. The twelve essays are by international scholars representing an impressive cross section of theoretical approaches."--Page 4 of cover.
A Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going. He suggests that the girl pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They Have Many Famous Stories Are: ‘The Golden Bird, Hans In Luck, Jorinda And Jorindel,The Travelling Musicians, Old Sultan, The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean, Briar Rose, The Dog And The Sparrow, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Fisherman And His Wife, The Willow-Wren And The Bear, The Frog-Prince, Cat And Mouse In Partnership, The Goose-Girl, The Adventures Of Chanticleer And Partlet, Rapunzel, Fundevogel, The Valiant Little Tailor, Hansel And Gretel, Mother Holle, Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood], The Robber Bridegroom, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, Clever Gretel, The Old Man And His Grandson, The Little Peasant, Frederick And Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop, The Pink, Lever Elsie, The Miser In The Bush, Ashputtel, The White Snake, The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids.