Little Red Riding-Hood

Name: Little Red Riding-Hood
Author: Charles Perrault
ISBN: 9781911144274

Author: Charles Perrault
Read by: Josh Verbae
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 5 minutes
ISBN: 9781911144274
Published: 15 November 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Red Riding-Hood
fairy tale
children
magic
bedtime
stories
folklore
good and evil
family
society

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Description

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature that ever was seen. Her mother was very fond of her, and her grandmother loved her still more. This good woman made for her a little red riding-hood, which became the girl so well that everybody called her Little Red Riding-hood. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) set down the French fairy tales that still furnish childhood. A man of Louis XIV's court and the Académie Française, he gathered Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood into forms polished enough for the salon and stubborn enough to keep their peasant bone. Perrault wrote as if wonder needed manners — and as if manners still hid wolves, pumpkins, and glass slippers.

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