Thanksgiving weekend family picture book read-aloud fun! (Book 6 of 13.)

I'm not a real fan of the art, but I was amused by the grandfather's garbling of Little Red Riding Hood and his obvious desire to be doing anything other than telling this story. ( )

Recommended by Betsy Bird

"Not in your wildest dreams, Grandpa!"

A grandfather mangles the story of Little Red Riding Hood, his granddaughter offering corrections throughout. In the end, she gets a quarter for bubble gum and he gets to go back to his newspaper.

HUGE appeal for kids, and funny for grown-ups too. I want to make a flannel board (grandpa, girl, Little Red, Wolf, etc.) and do this with elementary classes.

Full text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIQCEohd166W9kk2csp-_ZUKonRYsjqzscHnRrvHTo4/.... ( )

Kids will love this book in which a grandfather is telling his granddaughter the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” but keeps mixing up the elements of the story. He first calls her “Little Yellow Riding Hood,” then “Little Green Riding Hood,” and so on. Each time his granddaughter corrects him, he veers off into other changes of the story’s details. Little Red goes to her aunt’s house to take a potato peel; she meets a giraffe in the woods; she is questioned by a horse…. Finally the little girl says in frustration, “Grandpa, you really don’t know how to tell a story. You get everything wrong. But all the same, can I have a quarter to buy some bubble gum?” He replies, “Sure you can. Here you go.” And grandpa, the author notes wryly, went back to reading his newspaper.

Illustrator Beatrice Alemagna uses whimsical marker- and wash-textured illustrations that are as fun as the story itself.

This delightful book would make an excellent choice for reading aloud. ( )

"C'era una volta una bambina che si chiamava Cappuccetto Giallo. No, Rosso! Ah, sì, Cappuccetto Rosso. La sua mamma la chiamò e le disse: Senti, Cappuccetto Verde... Ma no, Rosso!" Una storia notissima, una nipote attenta e un nonno narratore distratto: se a mescolare questi semplici ingredienti è Gianni Rodari, il risultato sarà un racconto gustosissimo. Se, in più, a illustrare questa "Favola al telefono" si invita Alessandro Sanna, il risultato sarà un'esplosione di colore, e una continua invenzione grafica. Età di lettura: da 4 anni.