Tale Summary
Red Riding-Hood’s mother asks her to go to her grandmother’s with cakes and butter. She must travel through the woods to get there and while on her way she meets a wolf. The wolf has the desire to eat her but is wary of the woodcutters nearby, so he asks Riding-Hood where she is going. She gives him the details of her grandmother’s house and they part ways. The wolf runs and takes the short route while Red Riding-Hood takes the long route to the house. The wolf arrives at the grandmother’s house first and pretends to be Red Riding-Hood. The grandmother falls for this trick and is eaten in one gulp by the wolf. Later Red Riding-Hood arrives to give her grandmother the gifts and the wolf now dressed as her grandmother lets her in. Red Riding-Hood comments on her grandmother’s big ears, nose, and teeth before she also is eaten by the wolf.
Fairy Tale Title
Little Red Riding-Hood
Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)
Charles Perrault, Madame D’aulnoy
Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)
Common Tale Type
Little Red Riding Hood
Tale Classification
ATU 333
Page Range of Tale
pp. 70-75
Full Citation of Tale
“Little Red Riding-Hood.” Old French Fairy Tales, Perrault, Charles, Madame D’aulnoy, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1899], pp. 70-75.
Original Source of the Tale
Charles Perrault
Tale Notes
Unlike many versions of this tale, Red Riding-Hood is not saved from the wolf by a woodcutter or a hunter. She is eaten and the story ends. This tale is the first Red Riding-Hood to be published so other authors have adapted it to continue the story and save the girl from the wolf. This tale has some words that are simplified; however, there is no obvious simplification of the tale for young readers. The illustrations are of Riding-Hood and the wolf and are in black and white. There also seem to be two different styles, suggesting that two different illustrators worked on this tale.
Research and Curation
Alex Gibbons, 2022
Book Title
Old French Fairy Tales
Book Author/Editor(s)
Charles Perrault, Madame D’aulnoy
Illustrator(s)
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Date Published
1899
Decade Published
1890-1899
Publisher City
Boston
Publisher Country
United States
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Digital Copy
Available at the CU Digital Library
Book Notes
The book itself is a standard hardcover book. There is a bit of writing in the cover to suggest it was gifted to a Madame Allen in 1901. The illustrations are in black and white with many different styles suggesting many different illustrators.
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“Little Red-Riding-Hood.” The Book of Fables and Folk Stories, Horace Elisha Scudder, Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 1919, pp. 1-4.
“Little Red Riding-Hood.” Old French Fairy Tales, Perrault, Charles, Madame D’aulnoy, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1899], pp. 70-75.
Little Red Riding Hood. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1867.
“Little Red Riding-Hood.” Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals, Charles Perrault, edited by J. Saxon Childers, London: The Nonesuch Press., 1925, pp. 19-23.
“Little Red Riding-Hood.” The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, pp. 51-53.
“Red Riding Hood.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, Chisholm, Louey, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 1-5.
“Little Red Riding-Hood.” Tales of Past Times Written for Children, Charles Perrault, illustrated by John Austen, New York: E.P Dutton and Co., 1923, pp. 6-8.
Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.
