A hilarious story for young readers by Michael Cox for Egmont's red banana series. Big Bad Wolf is Wilf Wolf's hero and Little Red Riding Hood is his favourite story, although pages are mysteriously missing from the end of the story. One day, on his way back from Wolfworths, Wilf meets a boy called Little Fred who has just been visiting his granny and who is wearing a red hood! Wilf can't believe his luck and plans to gobble Fred's granny, just like in the story! But when Wilf knocks on granny's door he gets a shock. Granny is six foot tall! She's the granny Little Fred visits on Saturday, not the small, tasty-looking one that Wilf saw on Thursday! Little Fred and his Saturday granny chase Wilf through the woods threatening to marmalise him! Poor Wilf! Red bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers, suitable for NC Level 3 readers. They are carefully designed illustrated books for both entertainment and education, supporting children's understanding of how to read longer books. Red bananas introduce similes and wordplay to encourage an understanding of more literary concepts.
This book features in the following series: Banana Books, Red Bananas .
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Egmont UK Ltd .
Michael Cox is a writer of many non-fiction and fiction books for children including titles in the Dead Famous series, Johnny Catbiscuit and How to Drink From a Frog for A&C Black. Michael first started writing when he won a Scholastic/Independent 'Story of the Year' award for Little Fred Riding Hood. He is now a prolific writer and visits schools and libraries when not writing. He lives in the Nottinghamshire countryside with his wife, his cat and his four fish. Liz Million completed an Art foundation course in Art and Design and then did a BA in Illustration. She got her first break with Walker Books and in the two and a half years since has completed six books. She lives in Co. Durham.
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.