Author: Susan Middleton Elya
Illustrator: Susan Guevara
Genre: Fantasy
Major Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books; Younger Readers; Pura Belpré Honor Book
Age Group: Kindergarten - 4th
Summary: Take a classic and put a spanish twist on it. Here we have little red riding hood. A little niña liked to wear capas with hoods and her family lived in the woods. One day, her mom called her on a mission to go to Abuela's house because she has a muy caliente cough. Before leaving, her mom warns her not to spill the soup on her cape and to be careful in el bosque. Off she went with her mission! Suddenly, she is encountered by a wolf and gets tricked by the wolf to pick some flores for her grandma. She took off her cape so it wouldn't get dirty, but soon later the wolf took it and ran off to her abuela's house!! The wolf, disguised as roja, is let in to her abuela's house and goes to see abuela. She is surprised to see the wolf and his big eyes, ears, teeth and starts yelling out of shock! Little roja sees what is happening and comes in to save abuela with her hot soup. She splashes it onto the wolf's face and he runs out, never returning again. Roja and her abuela spent some time together and she returned home with some hot soup to protect herself from danger through her travel in the forest.
Major Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books; Younger Readers; Pura Belpré Honor Book
Age Group: Kindergarten - 4th
Summary: Take a classic and put a spanish twist on it. Here we have little red riding hood. A little niña liked to wear capas with hoods and her family lived in the woods. One day, her mom called her on a mission to go to Abuela's house because she has a muy caliente cough. Before leaving, her mom warns her not to spill the soup on her cape and to be careful in el bosque. Off she went with her mission! Suddenly, she is encountered by a wolf and gets tricked by the wolf to pick some flores for her grandma. She took off her cape so it wouldn't get dirty, but soon later the wolf took it and ran off to her abuela's house!! The wolf, disguised as roja, is let in to her abuela's house and goes to see abuela. She is surprised to see the wolf and his big eyes, ears, teeth and starts yelling out of shock! Little roja sees what is happening and comes in to save abuela with her hot soup. She splashes it onto the wolf's face and he runs out, never returning again. Roja and her abuela spent some time together and she returned home with some hot soup to protect herself from danger through her travel in the forest.
Evaluation & Comments: I thought this book was interesting and would definitely be fun and interesting to learn from the student's perspective. I liked how in the beginning, they included a glossary of the words that were included in spanish. That way, when people read it and don't understand spanish like natives, they can glance over and see the definition. As an activity, I could have the students role play the story. Even though there are only three important characters in this story, I thought it would be a fun participating activity with the audience input when the main people need help. Especially because I would try to do it with spanish incorporated as well. Another idea would be to have the students write their own short story of what they would do protect themselves or abuela from the wolf.
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