Pearl loves playing dress-up with her friends, Amber and Lily. But this dressing-up box isn't like any other ... When Pearl finds a red cloak there's a magical dazzle of light and the next thing she knows, she's in the middle of Red Riding-Hood's fairytale world!
Pearl invites her woodland friends to a picnic in the woods. Lettuce sandwiches for the rabbits, hazelnut cookies for the squirrels and crispy bacon rind for the rat. Little do they know that Wolfie lurks nearby! But before he can pounce, the Duke and his hunters disrupt the picnic. In the chaos, Pearl gets badly hurt. Can the animals, led by the stag, Hans and Gran, save her life?
This book features in the following series: Dressing-Up Dreams, Pearl's Dressing Up Dreams .
There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hachette Children's Group .
Jenny Oldfield was born in Yorkshire in 1949 and studied English at university. She is the successful author of many books for children and adults, and lives in the country with her two children.
This book contains the following story:
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood as told by Charles Perrault tells of the good little girl who divulges to the Big Bad Wolf the location of her grandmother's house in the forest. Wolf eats grandma then lies in wait for Little Red. She arrives and is eaten by the wolf. In later versions of the story Red and her Grandma are saved by the Huntsman who cuts open the wolf and pulls the living, breathing Red and Granny from the wolf's belly.