Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Author - Ed Young ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Putnam Juvenile was reviewed on 6-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. This was a really neat look at a different version of the Red Riding Hood story. I like the Asian culture and how it is weaved into the story. I actually found this book to be kind of scary, mostly because of the pictures! They´re beautiful, but intense and fit in a bit too well with the story. But as most kids are already accustomed to fairy tales, it shouldn´t be a problem.¤

2) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. Dedicated to all the wolves of the world for lending their good name as a tangible symbol for our darkness (Ed Young´s own dedication)

Cultural anthropologists tell us there are similar fairy tales all over the world. This retelling of the Chinese version of the Big Bad Wolf certainly is cause for the awarding of the Caldecott Medal for Best Children´s Literature in 1990. In addition to his story, Ed Young´s shape-shifting art merges tale with sight for a free-flowing, fluid interpretation of the wolf.

The Chinese tale is different. Three little girls are left home while their mother goes to see the sick grandmother. At dark the wolf makes his appearance, blowing out the inside light as soon as possible. The illustrations are murky, like the light in the room, and only glints of teeth and whites of eyes can be discerned. But the oldest girl knows what´s up and tricks the wolf into wanting gingko nuts high in the tree outside their house.

No woodchoppers in the Chinese version--only one smart oldest daughter and two thoughtful, obedient younger daughters. How they defeat the wolf is sheer brilliance.

Ed Young´s illustrations deserve separate praise. Since most of the story takes place during the cover of night, he must show his scenes in darkness. However, he adds touches and big swaths of reds, purples, greens, blues, salmons, golds, to present the story. Beautiful, eye-popping, and very effective!¤

3) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. This is a beautifully written fairy tale, with a different take on "Little Red Riding Hood." Our six year old granddaughter asked my husband to read it again!¤

4) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. Title- Lon Po Po A Red-Riding Hood Story From China
Author- Ed Young
Do you recommend this book? Yes because it is great.


The book was so good. It´s about a wolf and 3 girls. The 3 girls were very scared because of the wolf so they had to figure out how to get rid of the wolf. So they decided to climb up a tree and get a rope with a basket and hang it down and the wolf got on it then they put the rope over on the other side and let go of it and the wolf fell and hit his head the wolf tried this a couple more times until the last time when he broke his heart so he went away forever.¤

5) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. The story goes beyond bad. This is a story of three little girls that torture and kill the wolf in a premeditated way. My 4 year-old son was very sad after someone read the story to him in a school interview to preschool. He said to me that it was a bad story, and the girls have done "bad choices". I can´t believe this is in the list of books recommended for 4 and 5´s.¤

6) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. A haunting Chinese rendition of the classic tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" follows the adventures of young Shang, Tao, and Paotze, who encounter a terrifying wolf. Reprint. Caldecott Medal. Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. AB. SLJ. H. ¤

7) Paperback Book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Putnam Juvenile. Three little girls spare no mercy to Lon Po Po, the granny wolf, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood where they tempt her up a tree and over a limb, to her death. The girls´ frightened eyes are juxtaposed against Lon Po Po´s menacing squint and whirling blue costume in one of the books numerous three-picture sequences, which resemble the decorative panels of Chinese tradition. Through mixing abstract and realistic images with complex use of color and shadow, artist and translator Young has transformed a simple fairy tail into a remarkable work of art and earned the 1990 Caldecott Medal in doing so.¤

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