A girl's gotta stick up for herself,' said Little Red."" Cecil (Baby's Breakfast) contributes flat, angular gouache illustrations of desert scenes. Together the two frontierswomen chase the wolf away, and the tale ends on an up-to-date empowerment note: "" `Now, Red, have you learned your lesson?' asked Grandma. Later, as Little Red flees the wolf in Grandma's house, Grandma bursts into the bedroom with an ax (she has been chopping wood). However, she's intimidated by her aggressor, who steps from behind a cactus and blocks her path (""She didn't want to talk to him, but she'd been raised to be polite""). Lowell's (The Three Little Javelinas) outwardly tough Little Red wears a sheriff's badge and shoots rattlesnakes with her slingshot. This Southwestern version of Little Red Riding Hood features a tomboyish main character, a wolf as sleazy as any streetcorner lothario and a distinct self-defense theme.
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