Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.
Tale Summary
This tale is a retelling, though the story clearly follows the usual Little Red Riding Hood narrative arc found in both the Perrault and Grimm versions of the tale. Little Red Riding Hood leaves her mother's house to visit her grandmother, meeting the wolf along the way. The wolf reaches the grandmother's house first and eats the grandmother. The ending is a strange mix between the Perrault version and the Grimm version. In this tale, Little Red Riding Hood arrives at the grandmother's house but just before she is eaten, a hunter kills the wolf (note that not getting eaten is unlike both the Perrault and the Grimm versions). The grandmother, however, does not ever emerge from the wolf's stomach (she is presumably dead, like the Perrault version). The common motif found in the Grimm version where they are both eaten but eventually emerge unharmed from the wolf's stomach is completely absent.
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Fairy Tale Title
Little Red Riding Hood
Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)
Walter Crane
Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)Ìý
Walter Crane
Common Tale TypeÌý
Little Red Riding Hood
Tale Classification
ATU 333
Page Range of TaleÌý
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Full Citation of TaleÌý
Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.
Original Source of the Tale
Charles Perrault
Tale Notes
In this version, the wolf eats the grandmother and nearly eats Little Red Riding Hood, but a hunter kills the wolf at that exact moment. There is no mention of the grandmother again, so the wolf must have killed her when he ate her.
Research and Curation
Sean Babbs, 2020
Book TitleÌý
Little Red Riding Hood
Book Author/Editor(s)Ìý
Walter Crane
Illustrator(s)
Walter Crane
Publisher
John Lane
Date Published
c. 1898
Decade PublishedÌý
1890-1899
Publisher City
London
Publisher Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Digital Copy
Book Notes
A heavily-illustrated edition of Little Red Riding Hood with a shortened and rhyming version of the tale that has clearly been adapted to appeal to children.Ìý