This retelling stays close to the original, but Pinkney's illustrations, featuring an African-American girl as the title character, are outstanding as always, and the large trim size showcases them beautifully.
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Re-read February 2022 ( )

This is the classic little red riding hood tale. Little red is going to her grandmothers when a big bad wolf scares her and he runs to her grandmothers, kills her, and pretends to be her. This is different than Little red and the lion, but it has a very similar storyline.

This book reminds me just like the classic Little Red Riding Hood. Except Little Red Riding Hood is African descent which was different than the original and I thought this was amazing because it has diversity in the story. The illustrations were warm and inviting just like the original tale. The colors he used also make the wolf and red riding hood stand out in the story. ( )

This book tells the story of a little girl on a journey to bring her sick grandma some soup, but meets a mean wolf on the way who ends up eating her grandma, posing as her, then eating the girl too. But a lumberjack comes by the house while the wolf is asleep, kills the wolf, and frees the grandma and the girl, and they all eat soup and go home.

The classical Grimm Brother fairytale is retold to a new generation. Little Red Riding Hood is off to see her sick grandmother and runs into some trouble with a wolf. Unlike the Grimm Brother version, the wolf tells Little Red to collect twigs to build a fire for her grandmother as the wolf sneaks away over to her grandmother's house. The story ends with the wolf being killed and Little Red saved as well as her grandmother. ( )