Little Red Riding Hood
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Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Some later versions include a woodsman. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales, wi
Illustration by J. W. Smith
"Little Red Riding Hood" as illustrated in a 1927 story anthology
Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked."
A "Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by Arthur Rackham
Big Bad Wolf
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The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales, including some of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and it has become a gener
Little Red Riding Hood
…Little Red Riding Hood (French: Le Petit Chaperon rouge, German: Rotkäppchen, Italian: Cappuccetto Rosso) is a fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Some later versions include a woodsman. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales (including in present-day France…
Disney's version of the Big Bad Wolf
Illustration by L. Leslie Brooke, from The Golden Goose Book, Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. 1905
Illustration for Charles Perrault's Le Petit Chaperon Rouge from Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé: Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (1697). Gustave Doré's illustrations appear in an 1867 edition entitled Les Contes de Perrault. Second of three engravings