Product Description

Ian Beck, top illustrator, tackles the classic fairy tales. Re-told with charm and humour, this is a straight-forward and child-friendly version of a tale that every child should know. Ian Beck's picture books have sold over a million copies, with one under option for TV. BLDelightful watercolour illustrations marry nostalgic charm with contemporary appeal BLPublished as part of an extremely collectable series with Goldilocks and The Gingerbread Boy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143224 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

Customer Reviews

Super version of Little Red Riding Hood
retold by Ian Beck, for the OXFORD Storybook Series.

From the back cover:-

'What big eyes you have!
What big ears you have!
And what big teeth you have!'

Little Red Riding Hood is a traditional firm favourite for a very good reason - it's a lovely story.
Here it is beautifully retold by one of our foremost illustrators.'

Durable board covers open to 18 high quality shiny pages in the popular 2-page spread format.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, in typical Ian Beck fashion, this super book is further enhanced by relevant facial expressions which help to promote discussion.

Clear, easy-to-follow text, enlarged in places, FOR EFFECT!

`Once upon a time there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood. She always wore a red cape with a hood that her grandmother had made for her.
She lived with her mother in a house near a deep dark forest.
One morning her mother called her.
`Granny isn't well,' she said. `Please take this to her.'
And she gave Little Red Riding Hood a basket full of good things to eat.
`Now, mind you stay on the path,' said her mother.
Little Red Riding Hood promised.
After a while she saw a woodcutter.
`Hello,' he called out cheerily. `Off to see your granny? Well, mind how you go.;
A little later she met a cunning and hungry wolf. He was dressed in a green coat and was leaning against a tree..........'

And as this overly-polite wolf sets up a slight detour for Little Red Riding Hood, who does the very thing she promised not to do and strays from the path, he has just enough time to dispense with Granny in one big gulp, and wait for his 'pudding' to arrive, in the shape of Little Red Riding Hood!
However ......... fortunately......in this version, the woodcutter arrives just in time..........Little Red Riding Hood is spared the sight of the inside of the wolf`s tummy and Granny tumbles out in one piece!

Little Red Riding Hood is a great story for young children to join in with...in the `What BIG ears' etc section.....and can be rather noisy too!

Other titles in the series include:-

The Enormous Turnip (Oxford Storybook)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Oxford Storybook)
Chicken Licken (Oxford Storybook)
The Princess and the Pea (Oxford Storybook)