As usual, Vivian Vande Velde has given me something that I have found charming and entertaining. Cloaked in Red contains eight different re-tellings of Little Red Riding Hood, all of them entertaining. In this book you can see the story from the perspective of Little Red, the grandmother, the wolf, the woodcutter, and even the Hood itself. All of them are funny and imaginative. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys stories with humour and to anyone who enjoys fairy tale re-tellings. That said, this still doesn't beat out the author's similar book "The Rumpelstiltskin Problem," an anthology of re-tellings about Rumpelstiltskin. Vivian Vande Velde is an author that I would recommend in general, and I've never been let down by anything I've read from her. The stories are a bit too "modern" in their retelling mentioning TV, movies, and malls, but they are also well written. I found several of them quaint and entertaining. A good book for late beginning/early intermediate chapter book readers. I tend to dislike the idea of a hip fairy tales for very cool people, but these stories are backed up by a writer who knows how to write well and is better than being shallow. Nice little collection.
What do You think about Cloaked In Red (2010)?
8 very believable possibities of what really happened to our favorite girl in red.
—Tyra
