Ninja Red Riding Hood (Ninja Fairy Tales #2)

by Corey Rosen Schwartz (Author) Dan Santat (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Companion to the hit The Three Ninja Pigs, this fractured fairy tale is a sure-fire storytime hit.

Wolf just can't catch a break! Ever since the three little pigs started teaching everyone Ninja skills, huffing and puffing just hasn't been enough to scare up a good meal. His craving for meat sends Wolf to classes at the dojo, and soon he's ready to try out his new moves. A little girl and her tiny granny should be easy targets--right? Not if Little Red has anything to say about it! Kiya!

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Kirkus

As silly a trip to grandma's house as there ever was.

ALA/Booklist

While the closing endpapers show the wolf at apparent peace, fans will be hoping he reverts to his nefarious ways for another fractured outing.

None

As with this book's predecessor, The Three Ninja Pigs, this retelling is adroit, and super-stylized art freeze-frames the cast's extremely smooth moves.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 3This action-packed fractured fairy tale is sure to excite young readers. Wolf is tired of getting beaten by his prey, so he sneaks into a martial-arts school to enhance his fighting skills. Feeling confident in his newfound abilities, he is eager to return to the hunt. He happens upon Little Red Riding Hood and thinks that he can trick her into becoming his next meal. What he doesn't bargain for, however, is that she has gone to ninja school, too. A sparring match ensues. A surprise visit from a tai chi master, though, gives Red the upper hand and puts Wolf on a new path of enlightenment. "The wolf was a mess./He'd had way too much stress./'I guess I'll give yoga a try.'" Children will gravatate to the rhyming text and exciting illustrations, created by Sumi brush work on rice paper. Speech bubbles and dialogue further enhance the story. The characters' facial expressions and body language will have kids laughing as Red and Wolf each try to best the other. A fun read-aloud, but also great for independent reading, this story piggybacks on Schwartz's Three Ninja Pigs (Putnam, 2012), in which the three little pigs share their ninja skills with their friends.—Amy Shepherd, St. Anne's Episcopal School, Middleton, DE

Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Review quotes



This book is a great book!

The tale Ninja Red Riding Hood is a different and fun tale. It was different than the original because at the end they don't capture the wolf, but the wolf lived in a peaceful place. Also, they included ninja in the story. This is a great book so I recommend to read it!

Corey Rosen Schwartz
Corey Rosen Schwartz is the author of The Three Ninja Pigs, Ninja Red Riding Hood, Hensel and Gretel, Ninja Chicks, and Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears. She has a Masters in Deaf Education from Gallaudet and taught at Lexington School for the Deaf for several years. She's also worked for an Internet company where she developed educational content for kids. Corey lives in Warren, NJ, with her better half and two young kids. She has no free time, but if she did, she would spend it scuba diving.

Deborah Marcero received her BFA in drawing and photography from the University of Michigan, and her MFA in poetry from the School of Art Institute in Chicago. She was a Lead Literacy teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and in her spare time, she loves climbing trees, hiking, swimming, and capturing changes in light with her camera. This is her first picture book.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780399163548
Lexile Measure
570
Guided Reading Level
M
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Publication date
July 10, 2014
Series
Ninja Fairy Tales
BISAC categories
JUV002250 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Wolves & Coyotes
JUV012040 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
JUV032070 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Martial Arts
Library of Congress categories
Stories in rhyme
Wolves
Ninja
Martial arts
Star of the North Picture Book Award
Nominee 2015 - 2015
Alabama Camellia Award
Nominee 2015 - 2016

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