Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten! Author: Trisha Speed Shaskan | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ESEEDXE | Format: EPUB
Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten! Description
OF COURSE you think I did a horrible thing by eating Little Red Riding Hood and her granny. You don't know the other side of the story. Well, let me tell you...
- File Size: 9063 KB
- Print Length: 24 pages
- Publisher: Picture Window Books (September 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ESEEDXE
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,318 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #16
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Geography & Cultures > Cultural Studies
- #16
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Geography & Cultures > Cultural Studies
I generally love anything to do with fairy tales, and am especially partial to ones told from a non-traditional point of view, so I was excited to see this on our library shelf. Sadly, this doesn't hold a candle to most of those. Here, the wolf does not portray himself as misunderstood or unfairly accused - he simply says he wouldn't "normally" eat meat, but that he was "really hungry." I suppose there's a lesson in there somewhere, but the beauty of these stories is usually the layers of the story and the ability to both see the other side and to see through to the usual story. With "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka as my standard, this one falls terribly short.
By ABrown
I was really excited when I saw this book. I love it when an author takes a popular tale and turns it on it's end, usually with a healthy helping of snark.
The story begins with the wolf telling us he is a vegetarian (he especially loves apples) and that we should not judge him for the whole Red Riding Hood incident. He goes on to explain how he was really hungry the day he encountered Red Riding Hood....really hungry.
The next several pages show us Red Riding Hood and Granny looking like big juicy apples, vainly admiring themselves in every available reflective surface. The vegetarian Wolf justifies eating them because they are "rotten" and look like apples. I think there is supposed to be a lesson in there, but all I could find was that Red was asking for it.
My verdict: Skip it!
By Word Nerd
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