Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood sets off to visit her sick grandmother with a basket of bread and wine. On the way the girl meets the wolf who manages to distract the girl by encouraging her to pick flowers while he goes to the grandmother's house and eats her. He then lies in wait for the girl, and eats her, too. A hunter passing by sees the wolf and slices him open. Out pop the girl and her grandmother.

This is one of my favorite folktales, with both a very scary wolf and a happy ending.

I reread it this week for Banned Book Week. Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman was banned in a school in California because the girl takes a bottle of wine to her sick grandmother, and the grandmother is later pictured drinking the wine. “Showing the grandmother who has consumed half a bottle of wine with a red nose is not a lesson we want to teach,” said an official.