Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World: 3 Beloved Tales

by Jessica Gunderson, Carolina Farías (Illustrator), Colleen Madden (Illustrator), Eva Montanari (Illustrator)

Overview

Think there's just one fairy tale with a girl who meets danger in disguise? Think again! Cultures all around the world have their own Little Red Riding Hood stories. Visit Germany, Italy, and Taiwan, and find out whose sick grandmother is a tiger, and who is saved not by a kind hunter but by a talking river.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479554355
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Multicultural Fairy Tales
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.38(d)
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jessica Gunderson grew up in the small town of Washburn, North Dakota. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota and an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has written more than fifty books for young readers. Her book Ropes of Revolution won the 2008 Moonbeam Award for best graphic novel. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and cat.

The fourth girl in a family of 8 children, Colleen Madden made it through childhood pretending to be a space princess with a wookie sidekick and drawing in her cardboard box art studio. Colleen spent some time acting and training at The Second City in Chicago, then went on to graduate from a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts, with a contract major in illustration and English literature. She is currently residing in the Philadelphia area, with her writer-husband, and their 2 sons. She has illustrated for many different kinds of clients and is the recipient of an International Greeting Card Louie Award. When not illustrating, Colleen can be found long distance running, making her boys giggle, and eating lots and lots of sushi.

Table of Contents

Little Red Riding Hood — The False Grandmother — Grandaunt Tiger.

Editorial Reviews

...fantastic for broadening the horizons of fairy tale aficionados. . . .The book can be enjoyed in its entirety, which makes for a great opportunity to compare the different stories, or just one story at a time—a nice option on those nights you need to accelerate bedtime.

Barnes & Noble Kids blog

I liked all of these stories and I liked finding the things that were the same and different. I think all kids would enjoy reading or listening to these stories.

San Francisco Book Review

STARRED REVIEW! A falcon swoops down and steals a ruby slipper from the banks of the Nile; a beautiful young girl lies in a coffin hanging from a tree. Sound familiar? Probably not, and, that’s the fun of these volumes, each presenting multicultural variations of stories we all know. . . .Illustrations capture beautifully the particular cultural ambience of each tale. . . .My second grade team has already deemed these books an indispensable addition for a curriculum that asks students to study folktale variations. Highly Recommended.

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