Re: Help with modern Red Riding Hood

"Sally Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >Subject: Re: Help with modern Red Riding Hood
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> > >"Sally Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >> A library patron asked for help in finding the title and author of a
> > >> modern version of Red Riding Hood.  She remembers seeing the book
> > >> about 2 years ago, in a college class, but can't remember title or
> > >> author.  Can anyone help?
> > >>
> > >The two that come to mind right away are LON PO PO by Ed Young and
James
> > Marshall's hilarious RED RIDING HOOD.
> > (I'm paraphrasing because I can't find our copy of Marshall's version,
but the
> > wolf eats Red and Grandma and says something like, "I'm so bad. SO
bad.")
> > Cindy
>
>
> Thanks so much for your ideas so far.  She is going to check out The
> Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, but the title did not sound
> familiar to her.  I asked the patron for more information and she told
> me is it not a spoof, it is the traditional story with little text and
> the illustrations are what make the book.  Color plays an important
> part.  In one picture the red cape dominates and all the rest of the
> picture is dark, in another it is the white teeth that dominate.

Okay, well, it's definitely NOT Angela Carter, which is a novel - no
illustrations, most specifically for adults (quite sexual in parts).  There
was also a brilliant movie version...

Debbie