Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World: 3 Beloved Tales (Multicultural Fairy Tales) by Jessica S. Gunderson

Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World: 3 Beloved Tales (Multicultural Fairy Tales) Reviews

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  Pip

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  cws﹕death, violence, murder, peril
  
  It's interesting to see how this story is retold in different cultures.
  There is an Italian version and a Taiwanese version, along with the original fairy tale.
  Each story is drawn by a different artist, which was really nice.
  
  On the whole, I feel fairytales are completely unnecessarily traumatic, especially for children.
  But this was interesting to read.
  The Italian version was my favourite!
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  Carissa Burton

  I read this as an eBook on Capstone. This book is a collection of three different Little Red Riding Hood stories that started off as folklore and were later turned into written fairy tales. This collection did not receive any known awards and is appropriate for children ages 5-8. This collection includes German, Italian and Taiwanese folktale twists on Little Red Riding Hood. A wolf is replaced by an ogress and a tiger in two of the tales. I gave this collection a 5-star rating because the plots of the three folklore tales are very different and interesting. The plots leave you wondering what will happen next because of how different and diverse they are. The characters have very different personalities and appearances. All of the themes remain the same, as a person or animal is in disguise to be an older woman. The language remains the same in all three stories and is easy to be read by children. The illustrations differ in style for each story. The German version has bold and bright images, the Italian version has more of a watercolor or colored pencil look, and the Taiwanese version looks as if it was heavily colored with crayons. This keeps the images interesting to look at. This eBook would be appealing to young readers because it gives them different perspectives of a well-known folklore tale. These different perspectives will hold a young reader's attention. This eBook also provides the option to listen as an audiobook, which many children would enjoy. I would use this eBook in a classroom during a lesson about different cultures.
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  Catherine

  The book Little Red Riding Hood: Stories Around the World by Jessica Gunderson is a multicultural book that incorporates a variety of cultural perspectives. The cultures represented in the book are German, Italian, and Taiwanese. Each culture has a variation of Little Red Riding Hood with slight differences in how Little Red Riding Hood is depicted and how the story transpired. The book also includes a glossary, critical thinking using the common core questions, and writing prompts. This book is appropriate for individuals in grade k-2 and I would highly recommend this book as a classroom resource. It would spark conversation with students and share various cultural perspectives.
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  AMY

  There are three tales in one book. The first tale was good with Little Red Riding Hood. The second tale was quite scary, featuring an Ogress - AKA "The False Grandmother." I would NOT read that to kids. The third tale was Grandaunt Tiger and was GROSS! A tiger eats a girl's hand and another girl's fingers and third girl kills her with hot oil down the throat. This is really gross and disturbing. I wouldn't read this third part aloud to kids EVER. I would only use the first story. I would not put this book into the regular collection for an elementary library. It is just too disturbing. Not recommended.
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  Bridget F

  This book has three version of Little Red Riding Hood. The first, Little Red Riding Hood A German Fairy Tale, is about a girl taking a basket to her sick grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood strays off the path to pick flowers and runs into a wolf. She tells him where she is going and he says they should race each other to grandmother’s house, and the wolf beats Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf eats grandmother and Little Red finds the wolf in bed disguised as her grandmother. He eats Little Red and a hunter hears his snores and sees him in grandmother’s bed. He cuts them out of the wolf’s stomach and sewed rocks in his stomach. The wolf wakes up and dies. The hunter skins the wolf. Little Red learned to never stray from the path.
  The second story in this book is called The False Grandmother: An Italian Tale. In this tale, a mother is making bread and she sends her daughter to grandmother’s house to borrow the flour sifter. The girl, carrying a basket of goodies, gets to a river. The river tells her she can cross if she gives the river the round cakes. So, she does. Next, she gets to a gate. The gate says she can go through if she gives the gate her oil, and she does. When she gets to grandmother’s house she discovers that it is an ogress in her grandmother’s bed. She escapes and the ogress chases her. The river lets her cross because of her earlier kindness but swallows up the ogress in its current.
  The third story in this book is called Grandaunt Tiger A Taiwanese Fairy Tale. A mother leaves her daughters at home and warns them not to open the door for anyone, especially the Grandaunt Tiger. The mother encounters the Tiger on her way, so the Tiger knows the daughters are home alone. The tiger goes to their home and tries to get in, but girls say it doesn’t sound like their mother. The tiger drank spring water and sounded more like their mother, but then they asked to feel her hand. The tiger wrapped a potato leaf around her hand and it felt soft, so the daughters let her in. The tiger said she was their mother’s mother, so they let her sleep with them. The older sister found the tiger eating her younger sister’s hand and knew it was the Grandaunt Tiger. The girl ends up getting rid of the Grandaunt Tiger in the end.
  
  If I were to use this book in the classroom I would have students write about the differences and similarities amongst the three different stories.
  
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  Aura Keaton

  This quirky book depicts three different cultural variants of the beloved children's fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood." Inside you will experience a little culture shock from Germany, Italy, and Taiwan.
  
  German: This traditional tale of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf" is surprisingly gruesome with a hunter cutting open the wolf's belly. It's a short, but intense tale. It has also been banned in many places because Little Red brings her grandmother a loaf of bread and a bottle of WINE.
  
  Italian: An interesting adaptation of a timeless tale -- Little Red is off to see Granny for a sifter armed with ring-cakes, bread, and oil. Along the way, she must ask permission from nature to continue; this reminds me of a troll story. Little Red finds herself in a "hairy" situation when she discovers Grandmother has been replaced by an ogress. I found this to be a very strange story with an even stranger ending.
  
  Taiwanese: Even more unusual than the first two, this version has changed the wolf into a tiger that likes to eat people's hands. Weird. In this fairy tale, there are two sisters and a wok full of scalding hot oil. Just read it.
  
  Overall, I think this book is entertaining enough that I wouldn't mind exploring other fairy tales I've grown up with: Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White.
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  Elizabeth

  Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World (Multicultural Fairy Tales) by Jessica Gunderson (author), Carolina Far’as (illustrator) – This series is on Kindle Unlimited. The longer I read fairy tales, the more I enjoy how universally weird and shocking children’s literature is. But if you are one of those parents who only let your kid read light and fluffy stories, this is not your fairy tale collection. Personally, I thought it was fascinating that the tone in all the stories managed to be matter-of-fact while relating really gory details. Gotta love casual violence for the sake of learning a lesson! Clever little heroines too! Happy Reading!
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  Kathleen Dixon

  I really like that this book is a collection of tales with similarities. The granddaughters and I haven't actually read the other two stories yet, though they're very keen for me to read them. I will - but I want to finish off our comparative study first, and those two are a little outside the parameters.
  
  I like that this version is set in winter, and I enjoyed the illustrations. The girls enjoyed the same things.
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  Sirah

  Compare three distinct yet similar stories of a little girl being tricked by a wicked beast. Each has its own significance.
  
  Little Red Riding Hood has never been my favorite fairy tale, but some storytellers can make it sparkle with intrigue and mystery. This retelling is flat, and while it's interesting enough, it wasn't terribly thrilling to read.
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  Reading Through the Lists

  It's always pleasant to find out there are other variants on the Little Red Riding Hood motif than just the German original--here there are Italian and Taiwanese versions as well, which I had never heard before.
  
  3.5 stars.
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  Anna

  There are three stories in this book. All are similar to the original Red Riding Hood story. Each story pertains to a certain culture and has pretty illustrations. I've heard the first one, but the other two were new to me so that was pretty cool! I love hearing new stories.
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  Meg McGregor

  I love to read different versions of fairy tales.
  
  This collection included the German, Italian, and Taiwanese stories.
  
  The stories were interesting but they really didn't contain too many details.
  
  I found myself wanting more, in the retellings!
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  Charissa Ty

  I'm a sucker for fairytales. There's always some truth to them.
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  Elizabeth Edwards

  so fun, i was totally pulled in by that cover, loved it!! check it out!! are you fairy tale fan?
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  Y.Poston

  Love this collection of
  "Red Riding Hood"
  variations!
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  Jenny Clark

  Three versions in this one, German, Italian and Taiwanese. The illustrations are good as in the others in the series, and this one has critical thinking questions like the others as well.
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  Carole

  A different version of Little Red Riding Hood.
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  Lauren Tortorelli

  I always thought that Red Riding Hood was a fairly dark tale, even when disneyfied for younger readers. The three tales in this book are no exception. They are all relatively gruesome, lots of eating of family members and chewing on hands. While I have heard a lot of versions of other tales though, there were two new ones in this book that were new to me and would be interesting for students to hear. I would read this one to a slightly older audience though.
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  Hilary

  Juxtaposes the classic story with an Italian version and a Taiwanese version. Includes a short glossary, Critical Thinking Using the Common Core questions, Writing Prompts, Internet sites, and further reading suggestions.
  
  Wonders Connections: Gr. 2 - Unit 4 Weeks 3, 4 - Our Culture Makes Us Special, Folktales about Nature
  Gr. 3 - Unit 1 Week 1 - Story time (folklore)
  Gr. 4 - Unit 2 Week 1 Literary Lessons (folktales)
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  Shante

  This book offers the reader the opportunity to look at three versions of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood in one book. Although not as enjoyable to me as the stories that try to spin the tale, I did enjoy reading the stories and looking at the illustrations. Children would look and see that depending on the culture the illustrations look different and you don't have to look at multiple places.
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  Liz Todd

  Some just plain bizarre ones in here. Enjoyed very much bc I love LRRH stories.
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  Sarah Carissa

  Love these series, different versions of the same fairy tale
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  Sarah

  
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  Sue

  These stories got progressively worse. The third story had a horribly abrupt ending.