Le Petit Chaperon rouge / Little Red Riding Hood
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Autor:
CHARLES PERRAULT
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
Evergreen children’s book (8-12 years)
Publisher:
NORDICA
Publishing Year:
2011
He is best known for his fairy tales, which he recovered from the oral tradition, among them: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots and Tom Thumb, which were collected in Mother Goose’s Tales. His children’s stories have survived through the centuries. He became a member of the French Academy.
He wrote a total of 46 works, eight of which were published posthumously, including Memoirs of My Life. With the exception of the children’s stories, most of his work consists of praises of the King of France.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
The popular tale by the Brothers Grimm includes parts of the story previously written by Perrault. This children’s tale is known practically all over the world and tells the story of a little girl on her way to her sick grandmother’s house to bring her a basket of food as her mother had prepared for her.
As she was singing happily in her red cloak through the forest, she met a Big Bad Wolf, who challenged her to a race to her grandmother’s house.
The Wolf knows two ways, the long way and the short way; he tricks Little Red Riding Hood by telling her to take the short way and that he will take the long way; cunningly, he shows her the ways backwards and Little Red Riding Hood, without knowing it, goes the longer way.
With this deception, the Wolf arrives earlier at Grandma’s house, and pretends to be Little Red Riding Hood so that the sweet grandmother will let him pass. Grandma lets him into her house, and the Big Bad Wolf enters and swallows Grandma in one bite. The Wolf then dresses up in Grandma’s clothes and gets into bed to wait for Little Red Riding Hood.
Once Little Red Riding Hood arrives at the house, the Wolf, who is pretending to be the grandmother trying to trick her to achieve his goal, pounces on Little Red Riding Hood to try to eat her, then she screams and a woodcutter who was nearby rescues the girl, kills the wolf, cuts open his belly and pulls out the grandmother, miraculously alive.
This happy ending is found in more modern versions of the tale.
