Little Red Hoodie

by Martha Freeman, Marta Sevilla (Illustrator)

Overview

It's not the big bad wolf that stops Little Red Hoodie from getting to grandma's house in this rollicking take on the fairy tale—Red can't follow directions!

"Follow Magic Wand Lane to Glass Slipper Boulevard, right on Beanstalk, left on Breadcrumb, down the Garden Path, and you're there," said Little Red Hoodie's mom, but Red wasn't exactly paying attention.

Before she knows it, she's hopelessly lost in the forest— and to make matters worse, someone has stolen her basket of goodies. It'll take the whole forest to undercover the thief and get the directionally challenged Little Red Hoodie back on track to Grandma's house.

A companion to the delightfully irreverent Goldilocks, Go Home!, this latest from Martha Freeman features all the wit and charm of the first book as well as cameos by Bobby (Baby) Bear, the Pig Brothers from HoGTV, Chicken Little, and many more. Marta Sevilla's clever drawings effortlessly capture the spirited banter among characters as Little Red Hoodie and Bobby Bear take turns narrating the story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823446216
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	536,395
Product dimensions:	5.67(w) x 8.51(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Martha Freeman has written over thirty books for children, including the Edgar Award­-nominated Zap!, The First Kids Mysteries, The Chickadee Court Mysteries, and Strudel's Forever Home. She was born in Southern California, graduated from Stanford University, and worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher before becoming a children's book author. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Marta Sevilla is an exciting artist whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazines in both North America and Europe, including the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. She lives in Spain.

Editorial Reviews

"Readers up on their folklore tropes and types will chortle over this sly, airy pastiche."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-10-27
A directionally challenged child sets out for her grandmother’s cottage with a basket of goodies but wanders into the wrong forest.

Hardly has Little Red Hoodie embarked before she finds herself in a rather populous woodland inhabited not only by a menacing if skittish Wolf, but a motley array of other folktale (ish) characters. These include HoGTV home-improvement show hosts the Pig Brothers, flying monkeys, Coyote, Anansi, Ratón Perez, and the whole Chicken Little crew. Several, notably Baby “Bobby” Bear from predecessor Goldilocks, Go Home! (2019), who serves as a snarky foil and narrates occasional chapters, tag along as Red and her growing entourage blunder into the evil queen’s castle, escape its dungeon/laundry room with help from a certain oddly knowledgeable woodsman (who eventually admits to a secret royal identity), and send the aforementioned lupine bully packing for good by ganging up to display their “inner fierce.” Sevilla supplies liberal quantities of cartoon headshots and group scenes, often with figures—the few human ones depicted with lightly toned skin but registering as White—delivering punchlines or side comments. Little Red never does get to her granny’s house…which may be for the best, as she casually notes at the end that it’s made entirely of gingerbread.

Readers up on their folklore tropes and types will chortle over this sly, airy pastiche. (Fantasy. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews

Read More