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Kindergarten-Grade 2 This outlined, watercolored Red may be wheelchair bound, but she has the will and perseverance of the Tortoise to defeat her own Hare, a Wolf in a track suit. Like the Little Engine, she believes she can and, with the coveted apple pie steaming in her lap during the race, she manages to overpower her athletic but dumb adversary. Unfortunately, this disingenuous blending of fairy tale and fable merely comes across as an inept sermonette on the power of positive thinking. While there is an unfortunate dearth of picture books featuring differently abled children, this rah-rah attempt (an enthusiastic Grandma and skeptical Rabbit cheer Red on to victory as she crosses the finish line), full of childish drawings, is more patronizing than inspirational. John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Sharon Flesher, Fore Word, April 1999.
"Updating the classic to reflect modern sensibilities has been somewhat of a growth industry during the past three decades, the results including jive-talking scarecrows, feminist Cinderellas, and Capulet and Montague street gangs.
Kindergarten-Grade 2 This outlined, watercolored Red may be wheelchair bound, but she has the will and perseverance of the Tortoise to defeat her own Hare, a Wolf in a track suit. Like the Little Engine, she believes she can and, with the coveted apple pie steaming in her lap during the race, she manages to overpower her athletic but dumb adversary. Unfortunately, this disingenuous blending of fairy tale and fable merely comes across as an inept sermonette on the power of positive thinking. While there is an unfortunate dearth of picture books featuring differently abled children, this rah-rah attempt (an enthusiastic Grandma and skeptical Rabbit cheer Red on to victory as she crosses the finish line), full of childish drawings, is more patronizing than inspirational. John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Sharon Flesher, Fore Word, April 1999.
"Updating the classic to reflect modern sensibilities has been somewhat of a growth industry during the past three decades, the results including jive-talking scarecrows, feminist Cinderellas, and Capulet and Montague street gangs.
Some of these modern versions retain the essence of the original story others use the classic tale as a framework for something entirely new. This story by motivational speaker and ventriloquist Richard Paul falls into the latter category.
The only resemblance between Paul's version and the well-known European folk tale is that both feature a red-capped little girl, a wolf and a grandmother. In Paul's story, Red Riding Hood, who uses a wheelchair, is shooting baskets in the driveway when her mother, clad in jeans and a tank top, asks her to take an apple pie to Grandma's house. On the way, she encounters the wolf, who is sporting running shoes and sunglasses, and challenges him to a race for the pie. As a result of losing the race, the wolf must clean Grandma's house for a year and begins his service while Grandma, Red and her friend Jack Rabbit enjoy lemonade and microwave-heated pie in the backyard pool.
Paul dispenses with the multi-level symbolism of the folk tale in favor of a single themed self-esteem/morality lesson, namely that a child in a wheelchair can accomplish whatever she sets out to do if only she believes in herself and gets confident support from her friends and family. While that lesson may appear to be directed at children with special needs, the book also works with able-bodied children. Parents and educators will likely find this book a useful tool in encouraging positive thinking for special needs children and their peers."
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