Lovers of fractured fairy tales are bound to eat up this one. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf are angry that Little Wolf isn’t big and bad like they are. They send her out to gather ingredients for dinner and she stumbles upon Red Riding Hood in the forest. Little Wolf doesn’t know what to do. Perhaps the unlikely duo can find a solution to Little Wolf’s problem.
This is a fabulous book! It’s a neat twist having the wolf parents being the bad ones, while Little Wolf has no desire to eat little girls. Instead, she likes fairy tales and playing dress up. It’s also funny and unique how Red Riding Hood is reading some familiar fairy tales as she makes her way to grandma’s house. You simply can’t help but love this story. It’s so clever.
I knew Liz Pichon provided the artwork for this story without even looking. In addition to being the author of her own fractured fairy tale, her distinctive style adds beauty and humor to Red Riding Hood and the Sweet Little Wolf.
Children will love this one. Highly recommended.
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Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Tiger Tales (March 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1589251172
ISBN-13: 978-1589251175
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. This review contains my honest opinions, for which I have not been compensated in any way.
Written by Rachel Mortimer
Illustrated by Maddy McClellan
$17.99, ages 4-8, 32 pages
When a princess loses a dear friend, a bird gathers up words the girls once shared and sings them back to her in this heartwarming tale about picking yourself back up.
For many happy hours, the princess and her friend would sit in the palace garden on a blanket scattered with open books, talking, reading, singing and dreaming of faraway places and beautiful things.
The girls loved words and shared them freely: words like "smile," "friends," "rainbow," "star" and "always."
On those days, a breeze would send their happy, colorful words twirling about through the air and a little brown wren who lived in the garden would catch them like worms and line his nest with them.
"They were treasures to him," Mortimer writes. "The words made him feel safe and warm."
But then one day, the princess's friend had to go away, leaving her heart feeling empty. As rain poured down, the wren collected her words, but now they were the saddest he'd ever heard.
Other birds in the garden also saw how unhappy the princess was and decided that if they were to ever see the sun again, they'd need to cheer her up. So one by one, each bird offered the princess something they loved.
A peacock showed her his fan of feathers, a magpie brought gems from his nest, a nuthatch laid berries and nuts on leaves at her feet.
But even when a swan paddled below her balcony with babies tucked under her wings, it was not enough to make her smile.
If anything, the displays only made her sadder. Watching a pair of jackdaws dash about with each other only reminded her of how alone she was.
Then one evening the wren suggested he offer the princess something different. Peacock couldn't imagine what such an ordinary looking bird could offer a princess, but that didn't dissuade him.
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