12/4/2023 0 Comments Amelie wolfI hunger for more sweet yet gream stories to read. Hello! I simply adore this story and artstyle. Available at: by Book review–The Little Red Wolf – JINSHAN LI Breakfast » Blog Archive » Amélie Fléchais’s The Little Red Wolf. by Little WillowĪbsolutely love these illustrations… what a treat to startle day with this visual feast x by fran shenker This book looks beautiful, and I love how different it appears both visually and tonally from most of the work I see being produced in the states. Thank you so much for posting these great articles. The illustrations! And the twisty storyline! This is a really good year for books about wolves I keep reminding everyone to be on the lookout for Sara Lewis Holmes’ new one coming in autumn… by tanita “‘She would find the wolves, who truly understood her …Īnd kindly give them the precious capes she wove.'”Īll art published by permission of Lion Forge Comics/CubHouse.ħ comments to “Amélie Fléchais’s The Little Red Wolf” “The little wolf thought at first it was his father,īut when he took a better look he realized it was a human.” “‘In fear, the guard took up his weapons again…'” You’ll see, he’ll be so happy to see you!'” “The young girl stopped dancing and sat on the ground, facing him, with a dreamy air about her. “As his eyes got used to the dark, the little wolf could better see his surroundings. “‘And so they fell in love, and he laid down his weapons.Īnd they lived a happy life, deep in the trees.'” She’s lost her last teeth and can no longer hunt.'” “‘Bring this nice rabbit to your grandmother wolf. (The cover above and the illustrations below feature the French text, but I promise an English edition will be available this Fall.) Enjoy! And it’s beautifully-illustrated, as is the entire book.Īnd, on that note, here’s a handful of illustrations, as promised. I can’t bring myself to reveal the twist, but it’s gripping and heart-breaking - and can serve as a wonderful conversation-starter for children about grief and memory and even perspective. The woman dies, just as in the first story the wolf heard from the girl, but she isn’t killed by wolves. On their way home, the wolf hears a different song, one telling the same tale of the young woman, who actually loved wolves and was understood by wolves. The wolf figures he’s done for when her massive father comes home, but the wolf’s mother swoops in to save the day. “You see,” she tells him, “you’re all evil beasts. It’s there that she finishes her song, the wolf listening in horror in the cage. She doesn’t quite finish her song, mind you they’re interrupted by their arrival to her home, where she eventually imprisons the gullible wolf. She leads him to her home, all the while singing a song that tells the tale of her mother, killed by wolves. “She won’t notice if I eat one of the rabbit’s feet.” Soon, the entire rabbit is gone, as he weeps through his gluttony: “Hmm, grandmother wolf does not have sharp eyes,” he reasons. Let us pause here to appreciate the darkly funny moment, right before he meets her, where he sits in sorrow (because he’s ever-so lost) and stuffs himself with the very rabbit he was to deliver to his grandmother. She sweet-talks the wolf into following her. The wolf, however, gets distracted and strays from his path, ending up right in the target of the girl his mother warned him about. “They are vile and cruel and hate wolves,” she tells him. The mother warns the little wolf about the forest of dead wood where the hunter and his daughter live and urges him to avoid it altogether. It’s a story, divided into chapters, that is, at turns, funny and haunting, the tale of a little wolf instructed to head to his grandmother’s house to give her one of the juicy rabbits his mother has recently killed. I’ve got some art from the book to showcase today-I’d love to let the art do the talking-but let me do my best to describe to you what this book offers. The English edition of this story, which turns the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” tale on its head and features a wolf in a red cape, was translated by Jeremy Melloul. Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to see an early copy of a book coming to shelves this Fall from Lion Forge Comics/CubHouse, Amélie Fléchais’s The Little Red Wolf, originally published in French in 2014. He looked to his right, his left, ahead of him,Īnd behind him … the trail had disappeared!” It was then that he remembered his poor hungry grandmother. “Exhausted by all the fun, he stopped for a moment.
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