Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Translated And Illustrated By Ed Young

ISBN 10: 0590440691 / ISBN 13: 9780590440691

Published by Scholastic Inc., 1990

About this Item

All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable.

Seller Inventory # COLV.0590440691.A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590440691
• ISBN 13: 9780590440691
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

In this Chinese version of the classic fairy tale, a mother leaves her three children home alone while she goes to visit their grandmother. When the children are visited by a wolf, pretending to be their Po Po, or granny, they let him in the house, but ultimately are not fooled by his deep voice and hairy face. Combining ancient Chinese panel art techniques with a contemporary palette of watercolors and pastels, this powerful story brings lessons about strangers, trust and courage to a new generation.

Review

Three little girls spare no mercy to Lon Po Po, the granny wolf, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood where they tempt her up a tree and over a limb, to her death. The girls' frightened eyes are juxtaposed against Lon Po Po's menacing squint and whirling blue costume in one of the books numerous three-picture sequences, which resemble the decorative panels of Chinese tradition. Through mixing abstract and realistic images with complex use of color and shadow, artist and translator Young has transformed a simple fairy tail into a remarkable work of art and earned the 1990 Caldecott Medal in doing so.