Big Red Riding Hood Written and Illustrated by Jodie Shepherd & Warner McGee

Shepherd, Jodie, and Warner McGee. Big Red Riding Hood. Stow, OH: Twin Sisters Productions, 2010. Print. 14 pages
Age Group:	2 to 4 years
Book Format:	Board Book with CD
Annotation:	Big Bird is Big Red Riding Hood. Follow his adventures to Granny’s house
Personal Reaction:	A Sesame Street Twist on the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood is always fun for children to read and listen to as well, because this book has a CD that accompanies the board book.  The CD has an introduction, Songs and Read Along versions with and with-out Page Turn Cues.  Big Bird is Big Red Riding Hood and Cookie Monster is a friendly version of the Bad Wolf.  Cookie Monster tries to get Big Red to hand over all the food in the basket he is taking to Granny’s house.  But Big Red does not give him all the food.  Cookie Gets into Granny’s bed and tries to fool Big Red but when it does not work, they all decide to go on a picnic together and share the food.  This tale encourages sharing with friends and to eat healthy food. The words to the story are sometimes portrayed by pictures of the object and a box to help the reader is on the last page.  This reviewer’s suggestion would to have this box on the first page inside the book to have the reader become familiar with the words/pictures prior to reading the book.  The book is marked with Ages 3+, however, this reviewer feels the it could be Ages 2+ as the picture words will help these readers to succeed.
Keywords/Tags:	Fairy Tale, Sesame Street, CD, Retellings, Friendship
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	Vocabulary Skills ~Promote literacy and the love of language ~Develop and increase emergent literacy skills and vocabulary Print Motivation ~Increase interest in and enjoyment of books Visual Literacy Skills ~Pictures have meanings ~Pictures and words are different Reading Readiness, which includes understanding that ~Pages turn from right to left ~Books have a front, back and right side up ~Stories have structure and development of a sense of story Print Awareness ~Provide a language enrichment environment ~Show the importance of and provide an opportunity for young readers to listen, observe, imitate, and practice language while interacting with books. Narrative Skills ~Young readers will be able to re-tell a story based on the illustrations in Picture Books Phonological Awareness ~Enhanced by guessing rhymes ~Repeating repetitious words