Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is a classic fairy tale/fable story that has been told from generation to generation. This version of the Little Red Riding Hood is a children's picture book that is retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. This picture book is a Caldecott Honor book in 1984 for its illustrations.

The story begins with a little girl named Elisabeth who lived in a house with her mother by the edge of the village. Elisabeth is well known and loved by the people who knew her. But it was her grandmother that loved Elisabeth more than anything in the world. One day, Elisabeth's grandmother sewed a beautiful red velvet cloak just for Elisabeth. It was because of that cloak that Elisabeth has come to be known as the Little Red Riding Hood. The story goes with Little Red Riding Hood visiting her sick grandmother and encounters a wolf who wants to eat them. In the end, the wolf did eat grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood only to be saved by the hunter who cut them out of the wolf. The wolf died and the hunter skinned the wolf to keep its pelt. The story ended with Little Red Riding Hood happily keeping grandmother company with no more evil in the woods.
The illustrations were classically created to capture readers' attention and help them interpret the storyline better. After all it did win the Caldecott Honor for illustrations.

This story is a classic fairy tale story that falls upon in the genre of folklore. Fairy tales are begun with a Once Upon a Time and ends with a happy ending. Little Red Riding Hood met all of the criteria. It began with a Once Upon a Time, the main character encountered a crisis only to be saved at a nick of time and ends with a happy ever after. I chose this book because it is the perfect classic fairy tale where students can learn about how these stories were created in the first place and how it evolved over time. Students can easily recreate this story into their own versions. Stories like these never go out of style—it's timeless— and it stimulates creativeness within the students.