Though Little Red Riding Hood illustrations usually depict the Big Bad Wolf as a regular wolf, he has various human-like features, including hands able to turn a doorknob, the ability to walk bipedally, and startling disguise skills, giving him some werewolf overtones.
🎨 Trina Schart Hyman #FairyTaleTuesday
"Little girls, this seems to say
Never stop upon your way.
Never trust a stranger friend.
No one knows how it will end.
As you're pretty, so be wise;
Wolves may lurk in every guise.
Now as then, 'tis simple truth:
Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth."
As part of the #VASTproject, we have developed and interactive book. In our telling of the #LittleRedRidingHood, we engage children with questions about what the little girl should do and what do different actions mean. The purpose is to both make children think critically of the classical tale, but also to get an aggregated view of how the tale is perceived today. https://redcapp.islab.di.unimi.it
The interactive story is available in English, Italian, Greek and Bulgarian.
The newest edition of @augurmag is officially out. My story “Wolf Mother” is in it. Here are the opening sentences. You’ll have to get a copy to read the rest! “Long lean legs, a tongue dripping with hot saliva, tail held arrow straight. The timber wolf stands at the edge of the trees almost, but not quite, hidden from me by the penumbral pines. She is grey, white, and black, the colours of snow in shadows, her legs planted as firmly as the trees behind her. She pants, but not from the heat.” https://www.augurmag.com#SpeculativeFiction#Fairytale#wolf@indigenousauthors#Wolves#LittleRedRidingHood#AuthorsOfMastodon#CanLit
Finished up my last image inspired by the 2023 Folktale Week word prompts for my book: “Found”.
This experience has really helped me shape my adaptation of Little Red. I’m so excited about writing now!
This moment happens when Little Red finds the captured spirit of her dead father, held by the three Fates as leverage against her so she'll follow the path they want.
"Now a great howling rose up all around them, near, very near, as close as the kitchen garden, the howling of a multitude of wolves. She knew the worst wolves are hairy on the inside, and she shivered."
Though Little Red Riding Hood illustrations usually depict the Wolf as a regular wolf, he has some human-like features: hands able to turn a doorknob, the ability to walk bipedally, a human voice, and startling disguise skills, giving the beast a werewolf vibe.
🎨 Gustave Doré