Cloaked in Red

Name: Cloaked in Red
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Vivian Vande Velde
ISBN: 9781469215709

Author: Vivian Vande Velde

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/09/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Fairy Tales

Synopsis

So you think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a different species? Well, then, try your hand at answering these questions: Which character (not including Little Red herself) is the most fashion challenged? Who (not including the wolf) is the scariest? Who (not including Granny) is the most easily scared? Who is the strangest (notice we’re not “not including” anyone, because they’re all a little off.)? Who (no fair saying “the author”) has stuffing for brains? Master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde crafts eight new stories involving one of the world’s most beloved (and mixed-up) characters in literature. You may never look at fairy tales in quite the same way again.

About Vivian Vande Velde

Vivian Vande Velde started writing to avoid housework and has authored more than twenty books. She and her husband Jim, the parents of one grown daughter, live in Rochester, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 13, 2019

A collection of short stories, each approaching the tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” from a different, quirky perspective. Every tale opens with a variation on “Once upon a time, after x had been invented but before we had y,” which pleasantly reminded me of The Princess Bride. That represents most o......more

Goodreads review by Anne on July 05, 2016

Red Riding Hood was once a young lady who . . . -Was so ashamed of the cloak her mother had dyed red that the girl felt compelled to sneak around the edge of town in wolf-infested woods. -Wanted a child so badly that she designed her own life-size child doll. -Had to deliver her grandmother’s dinner be......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on December 27, 2015

Though this book was good, it wasn't great. Would I pay 15 dollars for it? Nah. Would I pay 5 bucks for it? Yeah, probably.......more

Goodreads review by Lorena on April 07, 2016

This book started out bad for me – with an author’s note in which she makes fun of the original Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood. Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a dif......more