Retold and Illustrated by James Marshall
Puffin Books
Copyright 1987
Traditional Literature
15 pages
This story is about Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood has gone to take her grandmother her favorite treat because she is not feeling well. To do so, she must go through the dark woods. Along the way, she meets a wolf. She knows that she is not supposed to talk to strangers, but the wolf has such nice manners! Since the wolf is so well mannered, she invites him to join her. Little does she know, the wolf has a wicked plan all his own! What will happen to Little Red Riding Hood? Will she make it to her grandmother's house? Read James Marshall's Red Riding Hood to find out!
The illustrations are done in ink sketches. The lines are smooth and curved. The color of the illustrations is done in water-colored paints which are color-separated and reproduced in full color. The colors used are both warm and cool.
This book could be used as a math lesson on measuring and reading a map. You could have Little Red Riding Hood's house and her grandmother's house on a map. There could be a scale saying how many miles equals an inch and they could use a ruler to determine how many miles it takes for her to get to her grandmother's house. You could also use it as a math/science lesson on cooking. You could use measurements to make a dessert and maybe use the cafeteria kitchen to bake it. You could talk about the certain degrees you need to cook it and the transformation of the different ingredients to make a whole new dessert. This would also be a good book to read if you were discussing stranger danger and the students could make posters about stranger danger awareness with a Little Red Riding Hood theme.
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