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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7 Up—Employing the hyperrealistic style used in his controversial Holocaust picture book, Rose Blanche (Creative Editions, 1985), Innocenti here conjures a menacing forest for Little Red Riding Hood. The path in this modern-day, urban setting is surrounded with litter, graffiti, homeless people, traffic jams, fast food, and a crime scene. Sophia's journey is narrated by a knitting granny who appears before the title page amid a group of children. Frisch's ominous text, placed within garish red or gray blocks, sets the tone: ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2012
Little Red travels a 'hood of a different color in this gritty, urbanized adaptation of the classic folktale. The story begins in a crumbling housing project (the text, which hews more closely to the original tale's language, calls it a forest), where Sophia's mother asks her to go check in on her Nana. Sophia loads her backpack, dons her red coat, and walks through the city toward "The Wood," a bloated, jangling shopping complex, heading f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
