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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2012
Little Red travels a 'hood of a different color in this gritty, urbanized adaptation of the classic folktale. The story begins in a crumbling housing project (the text, which hews more closely to the original tale's language, calls it a forest), where Sophia's mother asks her to go check in on her Nana. Sophia loads her backpack, dons her red coat, and walks through the city toward "The Wood," a bloated, jangling shopping complex, heading f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Folktales and Nursery Rhymes
Story by Roberto Innocenti. Little Red travels a 'hood of a different color in this gritty adaptation. The story begins in a crumbl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
