Books like Little Red Riding Hood
By Trina Schart Hyman
For the kid who wants every classic told exactly right, this edition makes the old warning about strangers in the woods feel newly urgent again. Hushed, woodsy, and quietly tense, with moments of real warmth between Elisabeth and her grandmother.
A poor woodcutter's two children, abandoned in the forest, discover a house made of bread, cakes, and candy — and the wicked witch who lives there has a taste for children.
A brave boy ignores his grandfather's warnings about the dangers lurking beyond the garden gate and sets out to face a wolf, determined to catch it himself.
A jealous queen orders a princess killed for being more beautiful than her, but a hunter spares the girl, who finds refuge with seven dwarfs — until a poisoned apple nearly finishes what the queen started.
After a hunter kills his mother, a young elephant flees to the city, where a kindly old woman takes him in — then he returns to the great forest with his cousins Celeste and Arthur to become King of the Elephants.
A mischievous rabbit sneaks into Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden against his mother's warning, and once he's spotted, must find his way home safely while being chased.
During hard times in a Florida forest, a girl named Calpurnia sets off with her little dog to find enough fish to feed her hungry family and neighbors, guided by a mysterious tip from the forest's wisest old woman.
A beautiful young princess with skin white as snow and lips red as blood becomes the target of a jealous queen's rage, and must find refuge and courage far from the castle.
A boy afraid to go to school rides his grandfather's 1952 Ford time machine back through Big Papa's own frightening moments, hearing the same lesson each time: that's called being brave.
A timid squirrel afraid of thunder, hawks, and dark forest paths must carry soup through Buckthorn Forest to her sick Granny Oak, facing creatures who want to help — and some who want the soup.
A boardinghouse girl in nineteenth-century Paris spots a quiet stranger walking on air across the courtyard and begs him to teach her — not knowing he's a once-famous wire-walker now gripped by fear.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
