Neil Gaiman on the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood
January 18th, 2004
Continuing with today’s (unplanned) favorite stories from childhood theme . . . In his latest journal entry, Neil Gaiman writes about his recent photo shoot for an ALA READ poster and his thoughts on Little Red Riding Hood. I will let his journal entry speak for itself; it is great reading.As a personal aside, I decided in November, shortly after a Thanksgiving break spent re-reading The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism, a Norton critical edition edited by Maria Tatar, that I wanted to be Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween 2004. I have always loved that tale, especially the pre-Perrault, pre-Grimms, more ribald version that I had the (mis)fortune of discovering at a very early age. Oh, the joys of precocious reading!
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