Collected Item: “Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.”
Title of the complete book/anthology (not a single chapter/fairy tale)
Little Red Riding Hood
Illustrator(s) of the book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)
Walter Crane
City where the book/anthology was published
London
The country where the book/anthology was published (use United States for US publications)
England
The publisher of the book/anthology (as written on the title page)
John Lane
Date of publication (or date range from the library catalog, if no dates are listed in the book)
c. 1898
The decade the book was published (use the drop down menu)
1890-1899
The fairy tale type (use the drop down menu)
Little Red Riding Hood
Full bibliographic citation (MLA)
Little Red Riding Hood
What is special about this version of the tale?
A heavily-illustrated edition of Little Red Riding Hood with a shortened and rhyming version of the tale. In this version, the wolf eats the grandmother and nearly eats Little Red Riding Hood, but a hunter kills the wolf at that exact moment. There is no mention of the grandmother again, so the wolf must have killed her when he ate her.
A brief summary of the plot that highlights any unique variations
This tale is a retelling, though the story clearly follows the usual Little Red Riding Hood narrative arc found in both the Perrault and Grimm versions of the tale. The text has clearly been adapted to appeal to children, as the book focuses on images over text and the limited text the book does have is written to rhyme. The ending is a strange mix between the Perrault version and Grimm version. In this tale, Little Red Riding Hood is not eaten (unlike in both the Perrault and the Grimm version). The grandmother, however, was eaten but does not get rescued (she is presumably dead, like the Perrault version). The common motif found in the Grimm version where they are both eaten but eventually emerge unharmed from the wolf's stomach is completely absent.
The original source of the fairy tale, if easily identifiable (Straparola, Basile, de Beaumont, Perrault, Grimm, etc.)
Charles Perrault
A link to a digital copy of the book
https://cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/detail/UCBOULDERCB1~53~53~472642~132659:Little-Red-Riding-Hood?sort=title%2Cpage_order&qvq=sort:title%2Cpage_order;lc:UCBOULDERCB1~53~53&mi=22&trs=49
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