Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault
Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault
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Little Red Riding Hood

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Matthew Zamoyski, Lara Granger, Annie St. Aubyn, Jessica Mulligan, Paul Tucholski, Peter Maitland

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2019

Synopsis

Little Red Riding Hood is a young girl, so called because of the red cloak she wears. One day her mother asks her to take some food to her sick grandmother, who lives in a clearing in the nearby forest.
On the way to her grandmother, she meets an apparently friendly wolf, and since she has many friends in the animal kingdom, she sees no harm in stopping to talk with him.
But the wolf is not as he appears to be!
The wolf has sinister plans, and Little Red Riding Hood’ sweet and trusting nature may soon prove to be her downfall.
Loved by generations of children and adults alike, this classic tale teaches children to always be mindful of strangers and not to simply trust everyone they meet.

About Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 1628. Son of an upper-class burgeois family, he attended the best schools and became a lawyer in 1651. He wrote Parallels Between the Ancients and the Moderns, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, and became a member of the Academie Francaise in 1671.

His Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose, published in 1697, gave him great popularity and opened up a new literary genre: fairy tales. Among his most famous versions of fairy tales are "Blue Beard," "Sleeping Beauty on the Woods," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Little Thumb," and "Donkey Skin."
He died in Paris on May 1703.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronyell on November 22, 2014

4.5 stars I have been reading “Little Red Riding Hood” ever since I was a child and the version that was always read to me was the “sweet, politically correct, sanitized version where everybody lives happily ever after!” BUT…. The version I just recently picked up, which is the original text writt......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on May 01, 2012

I don’t know if I had ever read a translation of the original text before but especially when paired with Montresor’s illustrations it is haunting from the very beginning. The textured black that makes up walls, forests and curtains seems to loom over you and the heavy shading adds to the darkness.......more

Goodreads review by Christina on January 13, 2011

I use this scarier version of LRRH as a compare/contrast with versions by Hyman and Pinkney when teaching parts of plot to my sixth-grade class. This version has no falling action or resolution. It ends with LRRH floating in the wolf's stomach; the woodcutter is pictured in the background on the las......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on January 17, 2012

This version of "Little Red Riding Hood" was very dark. I was surprised at how violent the illustrations were, but I thought the author did a nice job sticking to the original story. This was a story I grew up loving, as I am very familiar with it. However, I think I prefer the happier endings.......more

Goodreads review by Jennica on September 16, 2018

This book fits into the fairy tale category of traditional literature. Overall, I thought that this book was okay. I didn't mind the retelling of the story and the words themselves. The story followed the general theme of the original story and is very similar to versions of the story that I read as......more

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