Lon Po Po by Ed Young

This Chinese version of “Little Red-Riding Hood” is about the wolf coming to the home Shang, Tao, and Paotze on a day when their mother has left to go see their grandmother. She tells them not to let anyone in the house. The children let the wolf into the house and find that he isn’t their grandmother so they think of a way to get rid of him. They tell the wolf that the nuts in their tree taste delicious so they will climb up there and pick some. The wolf cannot climb the tree so they make a plan to pull him up in a basket. After dropping him when only one of the children are pulling, and when two of the children are pulling they promise that all three of them will try the next time. After dropping him from a very high distance he falls to the ground and doesn’t respond. This version of “Little Red-Riding Hood” is similar but has many differences than the American version.
I really enjoyed this book when I was in elementary school and remember thinking that it was scary at the end when the wolf dies. I liked the illistrations throughout this book and felt like they did a good job of showing the lifestyle of the Chinese characters throughout the book.