by Rebecca Kraft Rector
Illustrations by Shanda McCloskey
Aladdin
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
2022
40 pages
ISBN: 9781534469297
In this humorous romp of a fractured fairy tale, Little Red receives a beautiful scarlet colored cape from her granny. Even though Red's class hasn't learned to write a letter yet, Little Red drafts a thank you note, packs a basket of baked goods, dons her cape and sets off to her granny's house to thank her.
What should appear? A big, bad voracious wolf who intends to eat Red, but when he spots her note, he goes into editor mode. He tells Red that her words all run together--there needs to be spaces between the words, Using a pencil which he carries behind his ear, Wolf edits her letter. Just when he leans in to gobble up Red, she throws a muffin in his mouth!
Red runs off, outsmarting the wolf, but he soon catches up. Again, Wolf is bothered by Red's letter writing skills--or lack thereof. He continues to edit the note until Red arrives at Granny's. Wolf wants to eat both Red and Granny now, but when Granny comments about the beautiful letter written with such attention to grammar, Wolf beams. All three eat pie together. Wolf sends a thank you note saying how much he'd love to have both Granny and Red over to his house to EAT.
Word choice makes this book a wonderful read aloud. Onomatopoeias abound as well as well-known similes and metaphors, for example, cool as a cucumber and smart cookie. Onomatopoeias include swish, splish splash, skippity-skop and many others. Adult readers will enjoy the fun sounding words as their audience giggles and learns each sound.
Highly recommended ages 3 and up. A must READ ALOUD book.
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