Little Green Riding Cap and the Big Bad Elephant

Ann Cathrin Raab
Little Green Riding Cap and the Big Bad Elephant

Tell me a story, Grandpa.
Sure! Let’s see . . . Once upon a time there was a girl with a green riding cap.
Shouldn’t it be red?

Not only does Little Red Riding Hood become Little Green Riding Hood in Grandpa’s story, but the big bad wolf is an elephant with sharp teeth — and that’s just the first of all kinds of absurd details.

Together the little boy and his grandfather invent a whole new version of the famous fairy-tale, which goes to show that even the best-known stories can change if the storyteller doesn’t remember them properly . . . and that there’s no right or wrong way to tell a fairy-tale because the main thing is spend time together and love one another exactly as we are.

• On the recommendation list for the 2022 Pied Piper Literature Prize of the City of Hameln

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