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Amira143 said: Ed Young’s version of Little Red Riding hood is both thrilling and eerie. The outstanding illustrations seem to be made with crayon, watercolor and chalk, giving very cloudy, shadowed depictions of the paneled scenes. Shang, Tao and Paotze are three sisters who are left home alone while their mother goes off to visit their grandmother. A cunning wolf notices her leaving and tries to fool the girls into thinking he is their grandmother. Eventually they let him into the house and he quickly blows out the candle. The dark illustration of this scene casts a black shadow of a wolf across a gray, smokey wall while the three brightly colored children hover together in the corner of the page. Eventually they trick the wolf into going outside by playing on his hunger and his desire to live forever. The girls are victorious in the end and tell their mother what happened the next day when she returns home. This story and its award winning illustrations can be the inspiration for countless art projects, including creating crayon and watercolor illustrations. |
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