  | Little Red Riding Hood and the dragon Author: Compestine, Ying Chang | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
A retelling of the classic story, Little Red lives in a village near the Great Wall, trains in kung fu, and must save her grandmother and village from a mighty dragon.
| Illustrator: | Ang, Joy |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.50 Points: .5 Quiz: 520125 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (10/01/22)
Booklist (11/01/22)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/11/22)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 11/01/2022 Compestine resets “Little Red Riding Hood” in China, giving it a dragon instead of a wolf and a protagonist capable of rescuing herself. When Little Red’s nainai falls ill, the girl heads out in her favorite red kung-fu cape carrying a basket of healing soup and rice cakes. On her walk, Little Red meets a clever dragon, who tricks her into gathering ginseng while he goes and gobbles up poor Nainai. Little Red soon joins Nainai in the dragon’s stomach, and this is where the story really gets good: Little Red finds other objects the dragon has swallowed (a Chinese yo-yo, silk ribbons, drums, and more) and uses her smarts and kung fu to escape from the dragon’s belly. Ang uses red and gold throughout her illustrations, which wonderfully evoke the setting near China’s Great Wall. The human characters are sweetly depicted, and the serpentine dragon never feels too menacing. In the author’s note, Compestine explains the connections between the classic tale and her Chinese background, including a pictorial guide to the objects in the dragon’s stomach. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
Booklist - 11/01/2022 Compestine resets “Little Red Riding Hood” in China, giving it a dragon instead of a wolf and a protagonist capable of rescuing herself. When Little Red’s nainai falls ill, the girl heads out in her favorite red kung-fu cape carrying a basket of healing soup and rice cakes. On her walk, Little Red meets a clever dragon, who tricks her into gathering ginseng while he goes and gobbles up poor Nainai. Little Red soon joins Nainai in the dragon’s stomach, and this is where the story really gets good: Little Red finds other objects the dragon has swallowed (a Chinese yo-yo, silk ribbons, drums, and more) and uses her smarts and kung fu to escape from the dragon’s belly. Ang uses red and gold throughout her illustrations, which wonderfully evoke the setting near China’s Great Wall. The human characters are sweetly depicted, and the serpentine dragon never feels too menacing. In the author’s note, Compestine explains the connections between the classic tale and her Chinese background, including a pictorial guide to the objects in the dragon’s stomach. - Copyright 2022 Booklist.
