Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? no longer the authors, or so it seems! Since storytelling is a perennially popular genre (and for good reason), we thought it would be wise to round up some of our favorite stories from the classic tale Little Red Riding Hood.
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10 tales of little red riding hood
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1. red wolf by rachel vincent
For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember, the town of Oakvale has been surrounded by the Dark Forest, a forest filled with terrible monsters. a forest that light itself cannot penetrate.
Unlike her fellow villagers, Adele can’t avoid the dark forest.
adele is one of a long line of guardians: women who secretly take the form of a wolf, to protect their village.
But when accepting her fate means giving up the boy she loves, abandoning the future she envisioned for herself, and breaking her own moral code, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to keep her neighbors safe.
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2. little red riding hood by elana k. arnold
You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked. And the wolf is angry.
since his grandmother became his caretaker when he was four years old, bisou martel has lived a quiet life in a small house in seattle. she has mostly kept to herself. she has been good.
But then comes the night on the way home, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and through trees, a fury of claws and teeth behind her.
a wolf attacks. bisou fights back. a new moon rises and with it, questions.
about the blood in bisou’s past and on his hands when he stumbles home.
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about broken boys and big bad wolves.
about girls lost in the woods, scared, but not alone.
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3. scarlet by marissa meyer
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison-even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.
On the other side of the world, scarlet benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out that there are many things that scarlet does not know about her grandmother or the grave danger that she has lived her entire life. When Scarlet runs into Wolf, a street fighter who may have information on her grandmother’s whereabouts, she hates trusting this stranger, but finds herself inexplicably drawn to him and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they encounter Ash. Now, they must all stay one step ahead of the vicious Levanian Moon Queen, who will do anything to make the handsome Prince Kai become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
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4. crimson bound by rosamund hodge
An exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption inspired by the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood,” from the author of Cruel Beauty.
when rachelle was fifteen, she was good: she was apprenticed to her aunt and trained to protect her village. but she was also reckless: she strayed from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. After an illicit meeting goes terribly wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible decision that binds her to the very evil she hoped to defeat.
Three years later, Rachelle has given her life in service to the realm, battling deadly creatures in a futile effort to atone. When ordered by the king to protect Ella’s son Ella Armand de Ella, the man she hates most in Ella, Rachelle forces Armand to help her search for the legendary sword that could save the world from Ella. Together, they navigate the opulent world of the courtly elite, where beauty and power rule and no one can be trusted. And as they become unlikely allies, they discover far-reaching conspiracies, hidden magic, and a love that may be their undoing. Inside a palace built on incredible wealth and dangerous secrets, can Rachelle uncover the truth and stop the fall of endless night?
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5. the girl in red by christina henry
It’s not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn’t look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the forest than the things that stalk their prey at night. sometimes there are men. men with dark desires, weak wills and evil intentions. uniformed men with classified information, deadly secrets and ruthless orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there’s something worse than all the horrible people and ferocious beasts combined.
red doesn’t like to think of herself as a killer, but she’s not about to let herself be eaten just because she’s a woman alone in the woods…
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6. dressed in red by vivian vande velde
So you think know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a different species? Well, then, try your hand at answering these questions:
-which character (not including little red) is the most fashion-challenged?
-who (not including the wolf) is scarier?
-who (not including grandma) gets scared more easily?
-who is the strangest? (Note that we’re not “not including” anyone, because everyone is a bit off.)
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-who (it’s not fair to say “the author”) has stuffed their brains?
vivian vande velde has taken eight new looks at one of the world’s most beloved (and confusing) stories. you may never look at fairy tales the same way again.
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7. for the wolf by hannah whitten
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he’ll return the world’s captured gods.
red is almost relieved to be leaving. Haunted by a dangerous power she can’t control, at least she knows that in the wild forest she can’t hurt those she loves. again.
but legends lie. the wolf is a man, not a monster. his magic is a calling, not a curse. and if he doesn’t learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the wild forest and its world whole.
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8. red rider by kate avery ellison
In a land where a werewolf army called the Sworn rule over the humans and walking corpses called treecrawlers roam the wilderness between settlements, orphaned Red has a secret that she and her grandmother have been hiding for years. She’s one of the Chosen, the despised young women selected to bear children in the stead of barren female werewolves.
red keeps its hallmark hidden, and does not take advantage of the luxuries available to the future mothers of the jury. But his secret is out when he rescues her rebellious boyfriend from execution for treason, and he can no longer hide the truth.
Red is intercepted by a dangerous young man named Vixor Rae, a prince among werewolves, and taken through the dangerous desert to fulfill her destiny in the capital.
vixor intrigues red against his will, but he is her enemy, and she wants nothing more than to see him dead.
But when treecreepers attack the sworn caravan headed for the capital, with only Red and Vixor surviving, the two must rely on each other to make it out of the dangerous wilderness alive.
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9. seen by alex flinn
Now available in paperback and featuring retellings of favorite fairy tales such as “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” and “The Ugly Duckling,” Kendra’s adventures in Beheld are filled with fresh fairy-tale fun from beginning to end.
Since she first saw James over three hundred years ago, Kendra has tangled with witch hunters and wolves, helped a miller’s daughter turn straw into gold, cowered in London as German bombs fell. and survived who knows how many shipwrecks.
But his powers have limits and immortality can be lonely. Kendra isn’t ready to stop looking for the warlock she met centuries ago.
With the help of her magic mirror, Kendra will travel the world to reconnect with her lost love, and of course, she can’t help but take part in a few more stories along the way.
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10. jackson pearce red sisters
Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris — the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.
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rosie march once felt the bond with her sister was unbreakable. Bringing Scarlett to life, Rosie hunts fiercely alongside her. But even as more girls’ bodies pile up in the city and the Fenris seem to be gaining power, Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves. She’s attracted to Silas, a young lumberjack who’s deadly with an ax and Scarlett’s only friend, but does loving him mean betraying her sister and everything they’ve worked for?
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