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53 I’m a sucker for fairy communicative retellings, from Cinderella to LGBTQ and gender-flipped iterations. What tin I say? As acold arsenic I’m concerned, determination are ne'er enough. As agelong arsenic determination are writers and storytellers determination volition beryllium originative caller takes connected the classical stories passed down done the generations. One of those stories that is told clip and clip again is the communicative of Little Red Riding Hood. A miss connected her mode to instrumentality immoderate goodies to her sick grandma is told not to stray from the path…but erstwhile she meets a wolf connected the way, she doesn’t bash arsenic she was told. The wolf eats her grandma and takes connected her signifier to effort to instrumentality Red. But what if it didn’t person to spell that way?
In these Little Red Riding Hood retellings we get to spot however the communicative might’ve played retired differently. In immoderate the wolf takes the spot of Little Red, successful others she becomes the huntsman alternatively of the hunted. Some are acceptable successful the 21st period portion others expanse america distant into a timeless fairy communicative world. But successful each cases these unsocial takes are acceptable to support an property aged communicative thriving adjacent into modern day.
Picture Books for Young Readers
Very Little Red Riding Hood by Teraesa Heapy & Sue Heap
Little Red Riding Hood is precise small and precise excited to sojourn her grandma for a sleepover. She’s packed her beverage set, her blanket, and each the beverage and cakes a toddler could ever want. And nary wolf is going to get successful her way! Join Very Little Red Riding Hood for a precise large adventure.
Violet and the Woof by Rebecca Grabill, illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova
Instead of the woods, Violet and her small member indispensable traverse the agelong halls of their flat gathering successful bid to bring crockery to a sick neighbor. Their existent and imagined adventures on the mode marque for a charming thrust — particularly erstwhile their sick neighbour turns retired to look precise overmuch similar a wolf.
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
In this Chinese fairy communicative that draws comparisons to Little Red Riding Hood, a parent of 3 daughters indispensable permission her children unsocial portion going to sojourn their granny. She warns them to support the doorway locked tight, but erstwhile a dependable claiming to beryllium their Po Po, their grandmother, comes knocking connected the door, they person nary prime but to fto her in. Except her dependable is awfully debased and her look is awfully hairy. And that’s due to the fact that it’s not their grandmother…it’s Granny Wolf.
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Middle Grade
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf (March 28, 2023)
When Hamra forgets 1 of the astir important rules of the jungle — don’t instrumentality thing without support — she finds herself hunted by a weretiger who volition lone forgive her indebtedness if she helps him regain his humanity. It’s a gorgeous Malaysian retelling of the archetypal afloat of phantasy and folklore and adventure.
Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff
Red isn’t acrophobic of thing — but magic. But erstwhile her granny grows sick, it seems that magic mightiness beryllium the lone happening that tin prevention her. Along with a porridge-obsessed miss named Goldie, Red sets retired connected a travel that volition instrumentality her done dwarven caverns and beast’s castles successful bid to find a cure for her grandmother. But it’s the wolf and the woodsman pursuing the girls and seeking their assistance to decision 1 and different that mightiness person the precise magical solution Red is looking for.
The Little Red Wolf by Amélie Fléchais
This acheronian retelling flips the publication by casting a young wolf arsenic Little Red. The Little Red Wolf is connected a travel to bring his grandma a rabbit, but erstwhile helium crosses path’s with a young quality miss who offers to help, it seems similar a harmless situation. But the small wolf has been warned astir humans. And though the miss seems nice, bully is not the aforesaid arsenic good.
The ending is rather dark, truthful marque definite this 1 is going to beryllium due for the young readers successful your beingness earlier recommending it.
Young Adult
For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
This publication that blends Little Red Riding Hood with Beauty and the Beast follows the 2nd girl calved to the queen and destined to beryllium sacrificed to the wolf. As the archetypal 2nd girl calved successful centuries, it is hoped that Red’s sacrifice to the Wolf successful the Woods volition mean the instrumentality of the gods. But it turns retired the wolf is simply a man, and the magical abilities she has ever viewed arsenic a curse are really a acquisition that could assistance prevention the Wilderwood.
Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
Like everyone raised successful Oakvale, Adele has been taught to debar the acheronian woods that situation the village. Lightless and afloat of monsters, nary 1 ventures into the woods unless perfectly necessary. But dissimilar others, Adele has bully crushed to task into the woods. She is simply a guardian. She comes from a agelong enactment of women who are capable to displacement into wolves to support the radical of their village. But pursuing her calling means abandoning the 1 she loves and surviving a beingness of secrecy. Faced with a aboriginal precise antithetic from the 1 she imagined for herself, Adele volition person to determine conscionable however acold she’s consenting to spell to support the radical of Oakvale.
Adult
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
This retelling acceptable successful contiguous time New York features classical fairy communicative characters reimagined arsenic women successful a trauma enactment group. These characters see the victor of a world amusement who didn’t rather get her fairy communicative ending, the erstwhile person of a blue-bearded billionaire psychopath, a pistillate devoured by a wolf who present wears him arsenic a overgarment and others reckon with differences — and their similarities — arsenic they perceive each others stories lone to recognize they person much successful communal than immoderate of them could’ve suspected.
Burning Roses by S.L. Huang
What if it was Red Riding Hood who hunted the wolf? Many years ago, Rosa made atrocious choices. And present she’s paying for them. Alongside Hou Yi the Archer, Rosa attempts to marque up for the sins of her past by stopping the deadly sunbirds from razing the countryside. But some are haunted by hindsight and the consequences of the choices they’ve made are inactive catching up with them, adjacent today. And erstwhile Hou Yi’s past comes calling, Rosa volition person to reckon with the reasons she near her ain homeland truthful galore years agone — and wherefore she tin ne'er spell back.
And Little Red Riding Hood retellings aren’t the lone ones we similar to speech astir present astatine Book Riot. Let’s support feeding this fairy communicative retelling obsession, shall we?
20 Must-Read Middle Grade Fairy Tale Retellings
