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32 pp.
| Houghton |
April, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-618-38794-3$16.00
(2)
K-3
"Red Riding Hood" is updated in an abecedarian version. As Carmine bikes to Granny's for alphabet soup ("beware" of dangers), she stops (diverted by the "exquisite" light) to paint Granny a picture--and so on. The ending is silly, and some of the alphabetical choices are more apt than others. But the sunny mixed-media art, sparked with reds, tells the story beautifully.