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- proper noun A
fairy tale of many different versions, especially the ones by Charles Perrault and more recently the Brothers Grimm, about a young girl who walks though theforest to visit hergrandmother and encounters theBig Bad Wolf (or anothervicious wolf, which may be awerewolf in archaic versions). - proper noun The fictional
girl who is theprotagonist andtitle character in thisstory .
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Format: Sisters Red, is a YA paranormal/romance which is based in a contemporary world after the events that are just like Little Red Riding Hood.
"Sisters Red" by Jackson Pearce (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman) Cindy 2010
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I remember writing a sketch based on Little Red Riding Hood and set in a NY police department, where the police officer who was questioning Little Red was called Kowalski.
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The gothic reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood was announced earlier this month, with Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson attached to pen the script.
Catherine Hardwicke To Direct Gothic Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood | /Film 2009
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After we had ordered our food, a waitress appeared holding a basket of pastel-colored eggs, looking like Little Red Riding Hood.
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He cuts open the wolf's belly, releasing Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood, both unharmed.
Becoming Little Red Riding Hood Glenn H. Miller 2008
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So I assume this wolf stays under the covers until Little Red Riding Hood shows up and says "But Grandma what big teeth you have."
Are we having Fund yet? Ann Althouse 2006
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The movie, directed by Steven Shainberg (adapted, with co-scenarist Erin Cressida Wilson, from a story by Mary Gaitskill), features Maggie Gyllenhaal in an astonishing performance as the morose introvert with a cutting problem who, like Little Red Riding Hood, carries a "tool kit" - self-abuse implements and first-aid equipment-wherever she goes.
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In a short while Little Red Riding Hood knocked at the door, and walked in, saying, "Good morning, Grandmother, I have brought you eggs, butter and cake, and here is a bunch of flowers I gathered in the wood."
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Everybody was happy that Little Red Riding Hood had escaped the wolf.
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Locks; Grumble and Cherry; Little Red Riding Hood_, with four colored illustrations by Webster; _Beauty and the
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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