Little+Red+Riding+Hood

Perrault's moral is not stated, but his tale may have been intended as a warning against strangers and traveling alone.
 * Title**: Little Red Riding Hood
 * Author**: Charles Perrault
 * Description:** It's about a girl that took a basket of food and wine to her grandmother. On the way through the woods she ran into a wolf and told him where she was going. He arrived before her and ate the grandmother. When the little girl arrived she noticed the differences in her grandmother and inquired about the differences and the wolf ate her as well. Perrault ended with both the grandmother and little girl dead without hunter to save them.
 * Genre:** Fairy tale
 * Situation/questionable:** how the story ended
 * Public's opinion:** parents complained that the bottle of wine condoned the use of alcohol, too violent and inappropriate for young children and the little girl taking wine to her grandmother.
 * History/censorship:** According to Sova, (1998), the fairytales were written for the court of Lois XIV asa means of teaching children about the dangers lurking in the world surrounding them.
 * Developmental age**: 8+


 * Reference**
 * Sova, Dawn B., (1998). Banned Books, Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds. Facts On File, Inc. New York.**