Review: Nice Twist on the Red Riding Hood Classic Tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
I'll definitely be checking out other books by Timothy Toucher, the author of Little Bad Wolf and Red Riding Hood.  I also liked the introduction by Bruce Lansky, which I found pretty amusing, however it's an introduction for a series of short stories, so after that I was looking forward to reading a number of short stories by different authors, alas there is only Toucher's gem.  It does only mention one story in the title of the book but I downloaded this ages ago and just clicked on it without reading the title and the intro is going on about a number of tales the reader is about to experience written as the editor would have liked to have read, so I was disappointed when there weren't more.  Obviously this version (which was free) is just the full version with the rest of the stories deleted and the introduction hasn't been rewritten to mention there's one free story and we'd like you to buy the rest, follow this link here.  But that's a minor irritation.Little Bad Wolf is a great tale.  It's not a picture book but a short story.  Not sure if it is marketed as a kids story, or an adult one.  It's appropriate and entertaining for either audience.  Basic plot follows a young wolf cub who has no intention of following his mother's instructions to stay off the path when he ventures out to get food after his father disappeared the week before who had told him the best and easiest meals to get are on that path.  He comes across red riding hood struggling to carry a substantial amount of food who produces a spray can out of her basket in a threatening manner.  He notices it's cheese, I don't want to give anything else away, but this is a fun story, you can predict where the cub's father went but the rest is a nice surprise.