Little Red Riding Hood

Starring:

💃 Little Red Riding Hood

👵 Grandma

🐺 Wolf

🤵 Huntsman

Once upon a time...

the home of a pretty little girl known to everyone as

Little Red Riding Hood 💃.

One day, her Mummy 👋 her goodbye at the garden gate, saying: "👵 is 🤒. Take her this basket of 🎂, but be very careful. Keep to the path through the 🌲🌲🌲 don't ever stop. That way, you will come to no harm."

💃 😘 her mother and ran off. "Don't worry," she said, "I'll 🏃 all the way to 👵's without stopping."

Full of good intentions, the little girl made her way through the wood,

but she was soon to forget her mother's wise words. "What lovely 🍓! And so red."

Laying her basket on the ground, 💃 bent over the strawberry plants. "They're nice and ripe, and so big! Yummy! Delicious! Just another one. And one more. This is the last. Well, this one Mmmm." The red fruit peeped invitingly through the leaves in the grassy glade, and 💃 ran back and forth popping strawberries into her mouth.

Suddenly she remembered her mother, her promise, 👵 and the basket and hurried back towards the path. The basket was still in the grass and, humming to herself, 💃 walked on.

The wood became thicker and thicker. Suddenly a yellow butterfly fluttered down through the trees. 💃 started to chase the butterfly. "I'll catch you! I'll catch you!" she called. Suddenly she saw some large daisies in the grass. "Oh, how sweet!" she exclaimed and, thinking of 👵, she picked a large bunch of flowers.

In the meantime,

👁️👁️

wicked eyes were spying on her from behind a tree a strange rustling in the woods made 💃's heart thump

Now quite afraid she said to herself. "I must find the path and run away from here!" At last she reached the path again but her heart leapt into her mouth at the sound of a gruff voice which said:

"Where are you going, my pretty girl, all alone in the woods?"

"I'm taking 👵 some cakes. She lives at the end of the path," said 💃 in a faint voice.

When he heard this, the 🐺 (for it was the big bad wolf himself) politely asked:

"Does 👵 live by herself?"

"Oh, yes," replied 💃, "and she never opens the door to strangers!"

"Goodbye. Perhaps we'll meet again," replied the wolf. Then he loped away thinking to himself "I'll gobble the grandmother first, then lie in wait for the grandchild!"

At last, the cottage came in sight.

Knock! Knock!

"Who's there?" cried 👵 from her bed.

"It's me, Little Red Riding Hood. I've brought you some cakes because you're ill," replied the 🐺, trying hard to hide his gruff voice.

"Lift the latch and come in," said 👵, unaware of anything amiss, till a horrible shadow appeared on the wall. Poor 👵!

For in one bound, the wolf leapt across the room and, in a single mouthful, swallowed the old lady. Soon after, 💃 tapped on the door.

Now, the wolf had put on the old lady's shawl and cap and slipped into the bed. Trying to imitate Grandma's quavering little voice, he replied:

"Open the latch and come in!

"What a deep voice you have," said the little girl in surprise.

"The better to greet you with," said the wolf.

"Goodness, what big 👁️'s you have."

"The better to see you with."

"And what big 👐's you have!" exclaimed 💃, stepping over to the bed.

"The better to hug you with," said the 🐺.

"What a big mouth you have," the little girl murmured in a weak voice.

"The better to eat you with!" growled the wolf, and jumping out of bed,

In the meantime, a hunter 🤵 had emerged from the wood, and on noticing the 🏠, he decided to stop and ask for a drink. He had spent a lot of time trying to catch a large 🐺 that had been terrorizing the neighborhood, but had lost its tracks.The hunter could hear a strange whistling sound; it seemed to be coming from inside the cottage. He peered through the window and saw the large 🐺 himself, with a fat full tummy, snoring away in 👵's bed.

"The 🐺! He won't get away this time!"

Without making a sound, the 🤵 carefully loaded his 🔫 and gently opened the window. He pointed the barrel straight at the 🐺's head and

BANG!

"Got you at last!" shouted the 🤵 in glee. "You'll never frighten anyone again.

He cut open the 🐺's stomach and to his amazement, out popped 👵 and 💃, safe and unharmed.

"You arrived just in time," murmured the old lady, quite overcome by all the excitement.

"It's safe to go home now," the hunter told 💃. "The big bad 🐺 is dead and gone, and there is no danger on the path. Still scared, the little girl hugged her 👵. Oh, what a dreadful fright!"

Much later, as dusk was falling, Little Red Riding Hood's mother arrived, all out of breath, worried because her little girl had not come home. And when she saw 💃, safe and sound, she burst into tears of joy.

After thanking the 🤵 again, Little Red Riding Hood and her mother set off towards the wood. As they walked quickly through the trees, the little girl told her mother: "We must always keep to the path and never stop. That way, we come to no harm!"

THE END