Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.
Item
Title
Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.
Description
A heavily-illustrated edition of Little Red Riding Hood with a shortened and rhyming version of the tale that has clearly been adapted to appeal to children. 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.
Contributor
Walter Crane
Spatial Coverage
London
Coverage
England
Publisher
John Lane
Date
c. 1898
Temporal Coverage
1890-1899
Identifier
Little Red Riding Hood
Alternative Title
Little Red Riding Hood
Abstract
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. Little Red Riding Hood leaves her mother's house to visit her grandmother, meeting the wolf along the way. The wolf reaches the grandmother's house first and eats the grandmother. The ending is a strange mix between the Perrault version and Grimm version. In this tale, Little Red Riding Hood arrives at the grandmother's house but just before she is eaten, a hunter kills the wolf (note that not getting eaten is unlike both the Perrault and the Grimm version). The grandmother, however, does not ever emerge from the wolf's stomach (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.
Source
Charles Perrault
Relation
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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