Title: Lon Po Po
Illustrator: Ed Young
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Fantasy- A Little Red Riding Hood Story from China
Theme: Sometimes you can out smart the bad guy.
Primary and secondary characters: Primary- Shang, Tao, Paotze, the wolf, and the three girls' mother.
Award(s) date of publication: Caldecott Award, 1989
Publishing Company: Philomel Books
Brief Summary and how I would use this book with students: Lon Po Po is a book written in China after the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The story follows the same idea of the big bad wolf. The wolf comes to give the three little girls a visit pretending to be their grandmother after the girls' mother leaves for the night. The girls, believing that the wolf is their grandmother, lets the wolf in. But after one of the girls realizes that the wolf is not their grandmother she decides to out smart the wolf. They end up telling the wolf that there is a tree out side with special nuts on it that will make you stay young forever. One the girls climb the tree to get the nuts for the wolf they trick her into getting into a basket and tieing a rope around it so that they can pull her up. Instead of pulling her up they drop the wolf three times really hard until the wolf dies. Then, the girls go back into the house and go to sleep. This book could be used in the classroom when teaching about story resolution. It could be read with the origina Little Red Riding Hood to teach children that stories can have different endings and the impact that each ending has on that story.
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