The Little Red Wolf tells the story of a little wolf who wants to bring a rabbit to his grandmother and comes across a young girl. The young girl seems sweet and innocent, but in reality she's not. She's going to capture and kill the little wolf...

The Little Red Wolf is such a nice and enjoyable read. I really loved the way they made the graphic novel, it's drawn so beautifully! I also really like the concept: they changed it about humans hunting wolves. The story is not just the wolf being switched by the human, but there's also another twist in the story. I really liked The Little Red Wolf and I cannot wait to discover more cute graphic novels like this one!

Originally translated from the French, I think this just might be one of those books that teachers are going to be grabbing with delight for middle school and high school classes. So many hidden messages on humanity to be found. Absolutely want to have a real copy of this gem!

If you love fairytales and retellings you would be missing out to not grab this book. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and the story is so beautifully written. There are twists and surprises with a fantastic adventure to jump into. I can't wait to buy several copies as gifts!

This story isn't about a little girl traveling to her grandmother's house but rather a cute little wolf with a red hooded-cape. There is a little girl but she's rather devious! I'd love to tell more but.. no spoilers!

Warning: scary scenes for little eyes. Make sure you pre-scan first before sharing with your little one.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

A beautiful retelling and reversal of the Little Red Riding Hood with some new elements.

It starts off pretty much the same as the story did in Little Red Riding Hood. A little wolf with a red cape/hood has to go to his grandma to bring her a rabbit. Instead our little wolf is distracted and we see him hop and skip through beautiful landscapes, gorgeously detailed scenery, and then he gets lured by the girl he was warned about. I knew right then what was going to happen, but boy, I was in for a twist.

There is heartbreak in the future, and I didn't even know it. The hunter and the daughter were really scary people, just like the wolf was in the Little Red Riding Hood story. However, after the ending, and what was revealed there, I could only feel sympathy for both of them (with the first song I could feel some sympathy, but given that we have seen how the wolves were I wasn't sure if it was truth or fiction, and the second song changed all that). I felt sorry for the girl who doesn't know the truth, and for the man who only saw his fear and did something terrible because of it. I have to say I had a few tears in my eyes. :(

I loved our little wolf, though he has much to learn. Much, much to learn. I hope that at least this experience will make him more responsible.

The book is gorgeously illustrated, like, absolutely gorgeous. The style is so beautiful, I couldn't stop staring at the pages in wonder. There are tiny details, lovely use of colours, and just wow.

I would highly, really highly, recommend this book to everyone. This book is one that I will be buying when it comes out, I need this on my shelf, and I will keep an eye out to see if more books by this artist will get translated.

I'm not sure what I was expecting going into this book, but I was very surprised with how the story played out. The illustrations were absolutely stunning, and I found myself lingering on each page.

A dark, beautiful retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Great for fairy tale aficionados of all ages.

A delightfully frightful reimagining of The Little Red Riding Hood, where the wolves are the protagonists and the humans are the villains.

Deep in the middle of the forest, the little red wolf—called that because of the red cape he wears—is tasked by his mother to go and bring his grandmother a dead rabbit. But the little red wolf forgets his task and gallivants throughout the woods, gets hungry and eats the rabbit, and then discovers he is lost. When a little human girl tells him that she knows the way, the little red wolf happily follows her to her home, never once imagining that the girl and her pretty song could be the evil hunter and his horrible daughter.

Beautiful and whimsical artwork portrays the idyllic life of the wolves, although it quickly changes when entering the stark human world, showing the drastic difference of the wolves living within nature and the humans killing nature. The font is very pretty, and the text is simplistic yet visually evokes the fairy tale being spun in the pictures. And the little red wolf is absolutely adorable.

It’s a cute—but surprisingly dark—interpretation of Perrault’s classic fairy tale that has at its heart the ways a person’s actions can affect their entire worldview and the lives of those around them. A good choice for most children, although a fair warning that parts of the story might be too scary.

I received this ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

The Little Red Wolf is, unsurprisingly, a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. In this story, there is a young wolf off to visit his grandmother when he encounters a little girl. This version is a translation of the original French version, Le Petit Loup Rouge.

The artwork was stunning. I paused on every page simply admire the illustrations. The story combined elements of the familiar tale with more original elements, both of which were highly enjoyable. I only wish that there had been a few more pages, as the book seemed to end rather abruptly.

Overall, this is a book that I would recommend for both children and adults. The twist on the classic tale combined with the amazing illustrations make The Little Red Wolf an accessible read for all ages.

I'm going to start off by saying that as a kid I ADORED stories that were very dark as opposed to the happy go lucky stuff most kids read, so when I saw this on Netgalley, I knew I had to have it. I was not disappointed at all when it was delightfully dark, but not without hope. The story is basically little red Riding Hood with a wolf as the main character and a little girl being the villain who wants to straight up kill him. Sounds pretty dark on paper for younger kids, but given one of the most popular video games among kids for some reason is about a Chuck e cheese expy haunted by murdered children that want to kill anyone who works the night shift, and A series of unfortunate events ( a book about kids who had their parents murdered in a fire and a count who wanted to kill the three of them for their fortune and implied killing at least one other child) was hugely popular with my generation, I think this book will be very successful. Ten year old Jess would be all up in this, and I loved having that nostalgic feeling again. My one complaint is the book seemed to wrap up a little too quickly, and I feel a few more pages would wrap it up a little more cleanly (I also wonder if the song the father wolf heard would've been more similar sounding to the one the girl sang in French than in English, or else little red wolf is wildly bad at listening!). Overall, I loved it and recommend it to any kid that likes more than a happy go lucky story.

This is a somewhat dark but lovely reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, but I suppose the darkness is fairly appropriate for a fairy tale. Instead of a girl we have a a little wolf who likes to wear red, sent out to give his grandmother a rabbit, with a warning to avoid the hunter and his daughter, who hate wolves. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful, especially of the forest, and are so vivid that you don’t even need to read the words to know the story.

I liked the way the tale was interpreted, but I’m not sure how children will feel about the little wolf eating the rabbit along the way or about the some of the illustrations of the hunter and his daughter – there was a slightly strange and menacing undertone, but I wonder if it would be as obvious to a younger reader.

The Little Red Wolf is a graphic novel/ children’s book about a young wolf cub who is sent off to deliver a rabbit to his grandmother. Along the way he gets distracted and eventually lost, only to be found by a little girl who offers to help him.

I found the art absolutely stunning. Amélie’s style is a gorgeous soft simplistic style that you can’t help but take your time on each page, not wanting to turn the page until you’ve look at every detail. As for the story, the switch of roles in the original Red Riding Hood tale was interesting. The switch gave a different point of view to the tale that I really enjoyed, however I felt like the story was a bit rushed in the end.

Personally I think it would have been a little better had the ending not been so abrupt and gave a bit more insight to the events the Little Red Wolf’s father was talking about. But overall I thought it was a fantastic and beautifully illustrated book, one that I would recommend for small children but I suggest the parent giving it a quick read/ flip through first as there is mention of death, animal hunting and illustrated pelts of wolves near the end of the book.

C'era una volta, nel fondo di una foresta scura, un piccolo lupo che viveva con la sua famiglia.

Amava indossare una mantellina rossa e giocare nel bosco - ma la sua famiglia gli aveva raccomandato prudenza, perché il Cacciatore e sua figlia si aggiravano nella foresta, ed erano crudeli e pericolosi.

Poi, un giorno, Mamma Lupa incarica il lupacchiotto di portare un bel coniglio fresco alla nonna; e il lupacchiotto si mette in viaggio...

Partendo da Cappuccetto Rosso, Amélie Fléchais costruisce una favola oscura e meravigliosa, che nel colpo di scena finale esplora il dolore e il senso di colpa.

Un gioiello, nei testi e nelle spettacolari, illustrazioni.

I loved this book (or graphic novel?) so much! Illustrations are beautiful and story is so good! A must read for all ages!

A modern take on Little Red Riding Hood, with a wolf taking the place of Little Red. The art in this book is absolutely gorgeous - I had to slow down my reading to really take it all in.

What the hay kind of bedtime story is this?!?! The last line reads, "In his rage, misfortune struck. So sad and horrible, that he could never forgive himself."
And that's it! That's the end. Everyone depressed and distraught forever. OMG, what is WRONG with this story?

The artwork is so lovely, so beautiful. Subtle colors and lines, pretty little details of forest flora and fauna. The beginning is whimsical and sweet as a little wolf travels through the forest to take a dead rabbit to his grandmother's house. He follows a butterfly, and explores a little mousey hole, and stops to look at a beetle.

Then it gets gross.

First of all, dead rabbit in every scene, just laying there in the basket, being dead and all. Also, the little wolf gets hungry and decides to eat just one of the rabbit feet as a snack. Oh, yum. Dead bloody rabbit feet. Never mind the bones.

Then he meets a mysterious little girl, who promises to help him, and in his childish innocence he is led away by her charms. And the plot gets very dark, and then it's just killing and murder and the evil past of the little girl's father, the Hunter, is explained. Macabre to the point that it was actually disturbing to read, and I'm an adult! I could never read this to a child!

The worst of it is, that even with this darkness in the story, I can see the potential for a happy resolution and the possibility of a little lesson about forgiving your enemies or something.

But instead, we are left with no real resolution, everybody is hateful and murderous, and the only lesson is that some people are just violent and there's nothing you can do except stay away from them. Which is certainly a good warning that applies to real life, but not what I want to read in a bedtime story.

Such a waste of beautiful illustrations.

Disclaimer: I received an ecopy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts and are not influenced by anyone.

Fantastic re-telling and excellent illustrations. The author should be very proud of herself.

Introduction:

Now, I have been reading fairy tale retellings for many years and I had read retellings of stories like “Cinderella,” “The Three Little Pigs,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” So, imagine my surprise and delight in seeing this new retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” from NetGalley called “The Little Red Wolf” by Amélie Fléchais and I just had to pick this book up! After I read this book, I have to say that this was one of the most creative and heartbreaking retellings of “Little Red Riding Hood” I had ever read!

What is this story about?

The story starts off with a family of wolves living in the roots of a tree and the smallest wolf in the family was called Little Red Wolf because he would wear a red cape all the time. One day, Little Red Wolf’s mother wanted him to take a nice plump rabbit to his grandmother, since his grandmother cannot hunt anymore due to her losing her teeth. But just before Little Red Wolf made his journey to his grandmother’s house, his mother warned him about a human hunter and his daughter and that he should stay away from them at all costs. As Little Red Wolf journeyed through the forest, he began to feel hungry and he started eating the rabbit that he was supposed to give to his grandmother piece by piece. When Little Red Wolf ate all of the rabbit, he began to cry since he was supposed to give that rabbit to his grandmother and he had no idea how he will get another rabbit to give to his grandmother. It was then that a little girl came up to Little Red Wolf and said that she could give him a rabbit if he followed her to her home.

Will this girl help Little Red Wolf get another rabbit for his grandmother or does she have some kind of malicious agenda for Little Red Wolf?

Read this book to find out!

What I loved about this story:

Amélie Fléchais’ writing: Wow! Just…wow! I never would have thought that I would ever read a “Little Red Riding Hood” retelling told from the wolf’s perspective (even though I had read a parody book of the “Three Little Pigs” told from the wolf’s perspective called “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs”). Amélie Fléchais has done a fantastic job at retelling the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” story from the wolf’s point of view as the wolf presented here is shown as being more sympathetic than the hunter and the young girl compared to the original story and that is what made this such a unique and creative read for me! I like the fact that the wolf here is presented as a young cub who does not know about the dangers of being around a hunter and is actually innocent of any wrongdoing in this story (well, except for accidentally eating all of the rabbit he was supposed to give to his grandmother). I also loved the mysterious and intense atmosphere that Amélie Fléchais provided in this story as I was sitting on the edge of my seat trying to see if any horrible disaster will befall Little Red Wolf and how he would be able to handle himself (or who would help him out) if he got into such a scary and dangerous situation.

Amélie Fléchais’ artwork: Amélie Fléchais’ artwork is probably the highlight of this book as all the images are drawn in watercolor paintings, which makes the imagery so gorgeous to look at. I also loved the haunting feel that Amélie Fléchais shows in the artwork as the illustrations are mostly in dark colors and it gives the story a mysterious and eerie feel, especially during the scenes where Little Red Wolf gets lost in the forest. But, probably my most favorite image in this book was the image of Little Red Wolf himself as he is drawn in an extremely adorable manner as he has large puppy dog eyes and a small cute nose that really brings out his innocent and adorable nature.

What made me feel uncomfortable about this story:

For anyone who does not like scary moments in graphic novels or novels in general, there are some intense scenes in this book that might scare younger readers, such as Little Red Wolf getting lost in the forest and the danger of possibly encountering the huntsman and his daughter.
Also, I felt that the ending was a bit too abrupt and I wished that more was explained about the revelation at the end, rather than just stopping the story as soon as the revelation was being made. All this just made me want to have a sequel to this story so that way, the ending would be made clearer to me than it is now and so that way we can have a more broader expansion on the characters themselves.

Final Thoughts:

Overall, “The Little Red Wolf” is one retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” that you should definitely check out, especially if you enjoy hearing classic fairy tales being told from a different perspective! I would recommend this book to children ages six and up since the imagery might scare smaller children.

This is a hauntingly beautiful story with gorgeous artwork that will capture your attention right from the first page. I especially enjoyed the background designs in the pages as they are particularly intricate and well detailed.

The story itself is a very imaginative spin on the original little red riding hood story. I love the fact that we are following the story of a young wolf in a story where it is the humans who are the villains. And whether or not you are familiar with the original story (which you probably are), the story will still take you by surprise. For instance, the story ended up being way darker than I expected it to be, which I enjoyed.

However, I also do have some issues with this book. Firstly, I found the little wolf quite unsympathetic despite the fact that in the illustrations his character design seems to be purposely adorable. Also, the ending left me quite disappointed. I feel like the story was heading to an ending as haunting and beautiful as the heart of the story had been but in my opinion, it just ended too soon and too abruptly.

If you love unique fairy tale retellings with dark twists though, I would still recommend this to you. I wouldn't recommend this to very young children though. While older kids would probably enjoy this book, the dark elements of the story, along with some illustrated scenes, might be a tad scary for a younger audience.

This graphic novel is over 80 pages and spun off the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

As the description states, it is a haunting fairy tale.

Yes. The story is dark. I would not recommend this for young children. But, the story caused me to surely empathize with wild animals. And, I found, I wanted the story to continue for a few more pages.

The illustrations throughout this graphic novel are gorgeous. And, each page itself is a visual feast.

Hands down one of the most beautiful books that I have ever read. The illustrations were gorgeous and with a new take of a well known/loved story it worked wonderfully.

I want to buy copies and just throw them at people so they can read it.