And in another version the wolf is pushed into the fire, while he is preparing the flesh of the grandmother to be eaten by the girl. There are so many picturebooks based on Little Red Riding Hood, but this has a nice twist: encouraging the wolf to change his own ending by linking to power of books and stories.

Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing picture book stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms – as seen in Jake Bakes a Monster Cake, Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet and Little Red Reading Hood. Her red hood could represent the bright sun which is ultimately swallowed by the terrible night (the wolf), and the variations in which she is cut out of the wolf's belly represent the dawn. But what’s even better than the clever story twist, is the fact this is a book that openly celebrates reading books and how great the stories are within them. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) is a Japanese action political thriller anime film uses the story of Little Red Riding Hood to show the triumph of the wolf. which shows different vignettes of the wolf re-writing his place in the story of the three little pigs (they get to go camping!The story has been changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern adaptations and readings. Gorgeous illustrations and the theme of being able to change the ending of any story and nothing being set in stone combine to make this a must have for any school or family with young children. In the Soviet Russian animated film Petya and Little Red Riding Hood (1958), directed by Boris Stepantsev and Evgeny Raykovsky, the main character (a boy named Petya Ivanov) witnesses the Grey Wolf deceiving a trusting girl and risks his life to rescue her and her grandmother.

This is how every fairy tale should be written, with the protagonist - regardless of gender - saving themselves from a life of solitude and boredom.Our World Book Day theme is wolves as we have Mini Grey visiting and her new book is Little Red Riding Hood inspired The Last Wolf. In this interpretation, there is a connection between the wolf of this tale and Sköll, the wolf in Norse mythology that will swallow the personified Sun at Ragnarök, or Fenrir. The wolf in this version of the tale is in fact a werewolf, which comes to the newly-menstruating Red Riding Hood in the forest, in the form of a charming hunter. I think it also did include nice messages for children that they could take away for their own reading - changing endings if they didn't like them etc - could be related to real life. In these stories she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning, or in some versions the help of a younger boy who she happens to run into.

A wolf in the woods has other plans for Red, but the librarian may have something to say about all this.Alternatively, the tale could be about the season of spring or the month of May, escaping the winter. The 1996 movie Freeway is a crime drama loosely adapted from the Riding Hood story, with Riding Hood ( Reese Witherspoon) recast as an abused, illiterate teenager and the wolf ( Kiefer Sutherland) portrayed as a serial killer named Bob Wolverton. Not only is Lucy Rowland’s rhyme tight and funny, but Ben Mantle’s pictures are warm, bright and enticing.