Ninja Red Riding Hood
Hardcover – Picture Book, July 10, 2014
Penguin Young Readers Group · Hardcover · July 10, 2014
Can a ninja-fied Little Red Riding Hood end with everyone happy?
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- Who it’s for
- A playful Little Red Riding Hood retelling trades wolfish huffing for ninja moves.
- Themes
- Ninja skills, Fractured fairy tale, Little Red stands up to the wolf
- Genres
- Folktale Retellings, Wolves & Coyotes, Funny Stories
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Start with this bookAbout this book
Can a ninja-fied Little Red Riding Hood end with everyone happy? Find out in this fractured fairy tale that's sure to be a storytime hit. Illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Dan Santat. Wolf just can’t catch a break! Ever since the three little pigs started teaching everyone Ninja skills, huffing and puffing just hasn’t been enough to scare up a good meal. His craving for meat sends Wolf to classes at the dojo, and soon he’s ready to try out his new moves.
Continue reading
A little girl and her tiny granny should be easy targets—right? Not if Little Red has anything to say about it! Kiya! Kids will be sure to fight over this companion to the hits The Three Ninja Pigs and Hensel and Gretel: Ninja Chicks!
Folktale Meets Dojo
A playful Little Red Riding Hood retelling trades wolfish huffing for ninja moves.
Come here for
- A fractured fairy tale with dojo-trained characters
- A comic twist on familiar folktale trouble
Expect
- Ninja action and playful reversals
- A picture-book retelling illustrated by Dan Santat
Where it sits
| Folktale Retellings | 83% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 76% |
| Wolves & Coyotes | 68% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Folktale Retellings
- Martial Arts
- Authors
- Corey Rosen Schwartz
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- July 10, 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Ninja skills · Fractured fairy tale · Little Red stands up to the wolf
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure