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Read the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood, who takes cake and wine to her grandmother, but meets a wolf along the way. Find out how she escapes from the wolf's belly with the help of a huntsman and her grandmother.
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Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tale about a young girl who wears a red cloak and encounters a wolf on her way to visit her ailing grandmother. Depending on the version of the story, the girl is either eaten by the wolf or saved by a woodsman or hunter. Despite the grisly outcome in some versions, the tale is considered a classic of children’s litera...
Countless versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” exist, many of which reflect the concerns and moral issues of the period in which each version first appeared. The story probably originated in the Middle Ages in Europe, most likely as a cautionary tale to warn small children about the dangers of the woods, especially of the dangerous beasts and human...
The earliest written version was “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (English title: “Little Red Riding Hood”), published by French storyteller Charles Perrault in 1697 in his collection of fairy tales Contes de ma mère l’oye (Tales of Mother Goose). Perrault most likely adapted the story from an oral folktale. In Perrault’s version the main elements of the tale were first recorded: a young girl dressed in a hooded red cloak encounters a wolf on her way to visit her ailing grandmother. Against her better judgment, Little Red Riding Hood befriends the wolf, who finds out from the girl where her grandmother lives and challenges her to a race to her grandmother’s house but taking different paths. The wolf hurries ahead while Little Red Riding Hood dillydallies, stopping to gather nuts and flowers and chase after butterflies. When the wolf arrives at the grandmother’s cottage, he disguises his voice to sound like Little Red Riding Hood’s, tricking the grandmother into opening the door. He then bursts inside the house and eats the grandmother. The wolf then hides under the covers in the grandmother’s bed. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives, the wolf disguises his voice to sound like the grandmother’s and lures the girl to the bed. In perhaps the most famous part of the tale, the little girl makes a series of observations about how different her grandmother looks:
“Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
“All the better to hug you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”
“All the better to run with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big ears you have!”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Little Red Riding Hood Short story Little Red Riding Hood lived in a wood with her mother. One day Little Red Riding Hood went to visit her granny. She had a nice cake in her basket. On her way Little Red Riding Hood met a wolf. ‘Hello!’ said the wolf. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘I’m going to see my grandmother.
Learn about the origins, plot, and variations of the European fairy tale about a girl and a wolf. Compare the story with other folk tales from different cultures and times.
A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next. Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet.
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15 de dez. de 2016 · Read the full text of the famous fairy tale about a girl, a wolf and a grandmother. Learn the moral of the story and the author's biography.
6 de mar. de 2015 · Little Red Riding Hood. A trusting little girl meets a scheming wolf on the way to her grandma's house. Story Reads: 252,639. This is a vintage fairy tale, and may contain violence. We would encourage parents to read beforehand if your child is sensitive to such themes.
