Little Red Riding Hood

by Wilhelm Grimm, Edgar Taylor (Translator), Marian Edwardes (Translator), W. Heath Robinson (Illustrator)

Overview

ONCE upon a time... in the middle of a thick forest stood a small cottage, the home of a pretty little girl known to everyone as Little Red Riding Hood. One day, her Mummy waved her goodbye at the garden gate, saying, "Grandma is ill. Take her this basket of cakes, but be very careful. Keep to the path through the wood and don't ever stop. That way, you will come to no harm." Little Red Riding Hood kissed her mother and ran off. "Don't worry", she said, "I'll run all the way to Grandma's without stopping". Full of good intensions, the little girl made her way through the wood, but she was soon to forget her mother's wise words. "What lovely strawberries! And so red..."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786059654593
Publisher:	eKitap Projesi
Publication date:	08/22/2016
Series:	Cheapest Books Children Classics , #9
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	10
Sales rank:	823,095
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786 – 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common. In 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacist's daughter Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen. Wilhelm's marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers. Richard Cleasby visited the brothers and observed, "they both live in the same house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property."
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common.In 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacist's daughter Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen. Wilhelm's marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers. Richard Cleasby visited the brothers and observed, "they both live in the same house, and in such harmony and community that one might almost imagine the children were common property."

Editorial Reviews

In his retelling of the Brothers Grimm story, Spirin paints exquisitely, presenting figures in a palette of sun-faded colors with careful attention to historical detail. White pages serve as backdrops for the characters, who often stand on delicately drawn lines that run along the foot of the page. Much of the action unfolds in the grandmother’s canopy bed. The wolf, magnificently dressed in a slashed doublet and red breeches, leaps in to swallow the grandmother; soon after, Red Riding Hood crawls up onto the tufted counterpane to peer into his ears, poke his soft eyelids, and examine his lovely white teeth. Her traditional skirt and leather shoes are shown in dazzlingly close detail, and her lips purse--Spirin paints her as a very young child--as she counts the wolf’s teeth. While Spirin stays true to the original story, his treatment is decorous: grandmother and Red Riding Hood emerge from the wolf’s belly without even a disturbance of his clothing. Owning Spirin’s work is the closest thing to having an Old Masters painting of one’s own. Ages 3–7. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Gr 2–4—This classic Grimm tale has had many interpretations over the years, but Spirin's splendid version is inspired by the lavish Dutch paintings of the 17th century. The jacket, with windmills and Renaissance cathedral spires in the background, sets the scene and centers the heroine in a colorful outfit carrying a bountiful bouquet of flowers and wearing a white brimmed, vibrant red peaked hat tied snuggly under her chin. Grandmother, who is garbed in lace and flounces, and the hunters with their long rifles and Cavalier hats fit well into the setting. The wolf, when he appears, fills the page: he is large and ferocious, and dressed in an elaborate ruffled tunic, braided, wide-cuffed pants, and a broad-brimmed feathered hat. He's the Renaissance man personified, although his slathering tongue betrays his debonair look. Spirin places his characters up front on the page against plentiful white space, giving intensity to the unfolding drama. A simply retold and richly illustrated addition.—Barbara Elleman, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA

School Library Journal

A cunning wolf leads a guileless little girl astray with nearly fatal consequences in this luscious presentation of the familiar tale. Spirin's retelling tracks the 1812 Grimm version, in which the heroine in her crimson bonnet conveys a cake to her sick grandmother, encounters the wolf, discloses her grandmother's location and disobeys her mother's warning to stay on the path. Racing to grandmother's house, the wolf gobbles grandmother and waits for Red Riding Hood, who's amazed at grandmother's huge hands, ears, eyes and teeth—whereupon the disguised wolf swallows her. Rescued by two hunters, Red Riding Hood promises to stay on the path. Reminiscent of realistic 17th-century Dutch paintings, lavish watercolor-and-pencil illustrations portray Red Riding Hood as a rosy, fair-haired bourgeois girl and wolf as dashing cavalier resplendent in feathered hat, lace collar and silk pantaloons. Textural verisimilitude, dramatic close-ups and unusual perspectives provide frightening intimacy and intensity, particularly in the scenes where diminutive, clueless Red Riding Hood explores wolf's razor claws, furry ears, yellow eyes and enormous fangs. A classic tale tendered with class. (Picture book/fairy tale. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews