"The Little Red Wolf", de Amélie Fléchais (autora e ilustradora), foi-me cedido pela Netgalley e pelo editor, para que eu fizesse uma apreciação honesta deste livro. Não há de momento edição em português.
Publiquei a minha opinião no Goodreads com 4/5 estrelas e a seguinte "review":
"This unconventional book has full page magnificent illustrations with a vintage touch where, in the middle, the text is handled in small but meaningful doses.
It’s a dark
fairy tale that subverts the original traditional tale of Little Red Riding
Hood, where the wolf is the victim and the little girl is the charming
dangerous stranger that lures the young wolf into a trap.
The real enemy is
the humankind.
There is a story
inside the story that explains the main plot: one in the humans perspective and
other in the wolf’s “real” perspective.
It’s short but
it shocks and delivers a powerful message. Good for Halloween reading to the
kids, followed by a discussion about how appearances can be deceiving and there
can be two sides to one story. Hear both sides before you judge the truth of
it.
The little wolf
in the red cape seems sweet but it goes on eating a cute dead rabbit. The
appearance of harmless, innocent and cute is really deceiving in this story.
It’s surely not
a Disney style retelling or a boring politically correct version.
A bit macabre
but contains good advice, warning about dangers that exist in real life.
I received this
book as an eARC from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for my honest
review".
