Perrault Fairy Tales

Title: Perrault Fairy Tales (Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Bluebeard)
Author: Charles Parrault
Publisher: Clarion Books
Copyright: 1993 The Albion Press Ltd.
Pages: 45
Ages: 9-12
Genre: Fairy Tales

Summary (Little Red Riding Hood):
Little Red Riding Hood was a beautiful little girl who’s mother and grandmother doted on. One day her mother sent her to her grandmother’s house because her grandmother was ill. She was to take her some bread and a pot of butter. Along the way she met a wolf and they talked and instead of being cautious she told him exactly what she was doing and where she was going. He races her to her grandmother’s cottage and when he arrives, eats the grandmother and waits for the girl. When she arrives, he pretends to be her grandmother and eats her.

Recommendations:
I would recommend this to younger children. I think it would help explain the need to not talk to strangers.

Potential Problems:
It’s not a happy story.

My Reaction:
I liked it. I think it had a good moral to the story. Not like the one I’ve always heard where someone saves Red, and her Grandmother. I think this is more true to what can happen.