We loved all the colorful illustrations, but unfortunately the story fell a bit flat. It was a little confusing for my little one to follow.

Overall 3 stars

This is one of those books where the concept is better than the execution.

A big brother tries to retell Little Read Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs without any threat to them, because his character, a knight, shoos the wolf away, without incident.

His little sister finds that she doesn't like these versions, because they are boring.

I agree.

If the book had begun with the brother's third attempt, where he had the knight saving pigs and girls and grandmothers from the wolf, then this could have been a much funner book. But since we had to go half way through the book to get to this point, then no, it didn't work.

At this point, I agree with the sister, that she would rather have her mother tell the stories.

Despite all the ice cream at the end.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.l

This was such a fun book. A boy reading to his little sister but twisting the well known tales to include his own version of events, much to his little sister's dismay who quickly gets bored of his story's.
I'm always looking for new books to recommend to my younger customers and this one is going straight to the top of my recommends.
Heartwarming and funny. Sure to delight any little reader who gets their hands on this beautifully illustrated book.

Cute Illustrations. Relatively cute story, I’m not quite sure what could have made it better. It seemed repetitive, and I think it could have used some other stories besides riffing on almost the same couple stories a few times. The end seemed abrupt and didn’t quite make the point. There was a bit more excitement to the last story as the kid faced down the wolf, but it wasn’t all that different from the previous narratives.

Well this wasn't awful, but it wasn't great. A young kid reads to his even younger sister, first Little Red Riding Hood, and then the Three Little Pigs, but always leaving out any threat or danger to the title characters, and always inventing a knight (who looks suspiciously like him) to come along and scare the wolf away. Is it because he wants to be the hero of his own story, or is it that he's actually a bit too scared to read the wolf bits out? Either way it doesn't make for a fun story, quite the opposite. He'll have to overcome his reluctance to include the wolf if he's going to have a happy sister. The premise is fine, but it is all a bit too loose, scattershot and lacking in discipline (both in narrative and in the illustrations) to really appeal.

This story was soft and sweet and followed the tale of a older brother telling a story to his sister. I loved how Gabriel liked to describe things as being nice and sweet (especially with iced cream) and thought it was interesting how he changed his tale to add a little dash of fear but also still keep the tale from ending ‘badly’.

This is a children's book about a boy who doesn't want to tell a story where anything bad happens. The illustrations are cute as is the premise of the book. I found the dialogue between the boy and his sister to be confusing at times. It's not a book I would reach for to read to my kids, because I think it would be somewhat hard to understand the premise of the dialogue for kids under 8 or so.