Little Red: The Real Story of Red Riding Hood

By Pendragan

Forget about that goody two-shoes in the cape! This comic beautifully illustrated version of the old fairy tale shows Red Riding Hood the way you’ve never seen her. In fact, everything in this story is upside down and inside out. Grandma and the Wolf are old friends, the Wolf is terrified of children and Little Red has a very un-angelic streak... One ordeal for Wolf follows another until suddenly he and Red are obliged to join forces against a very unexpected enemy... bubbles!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dragan Matijevic
• Release date: Aug 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310284908

Pendragan

'Pendragan' is the pen-name for children's fiction-writing duo Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic. They also write independantly as Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic (adult fiction, self-help and cookery books). They launched Pendragan Publishing as an independent, international publishing platform for storytellers around the world. If you would like news about forthcoming publications, or books in the works, or if you have questions about any of the characters, please let us know. Dragan Matijevic Dragan started writing during the war that broke up Yugoslavia in the early '90s. Living in England with his one-year old son at the time, Dragan wondered how he could help his people in Croatia. The solution turned out to be magic! Dragan founded a theatre charity called Rise Phoenix, wrote his first puppet play for children, created his own puppets, and together with a bunch of troubadours, jesters and jugglers, drove a truck down to the war zone. In 1993, "Peppe the Magician" began to appear in refugee camps throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Small puppets and theatre plays gave way to giant puppets and theatre spectacles. Children who had lost everything rediscovered the ability to laugh. Adults slowly joined in. One Croatian soldier shouted from the audience, "Croatia needs puppets, not guns!" Quentin Blake agreed and gave permission for Rise Phoenix to take his Big Friendly Giant to the war zone. Dragan went on to write and perform in many other children's plays, quite a few of which are now stories and novels. When not writing, Dragan teaches at The Artisan Bakery School, and continues to perform as the magician Sol Ray. Penny Williams As a child, Penny would row ashore to school from the sailing boat she grew up on with her family. This gave her a quirky view on life, encouraged by the stories she heard from blue-water sailors arriving in Falmouth Harbour. Penny grew up with a hunger for distant horizons and foreign shores. Her explorations took her to Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and even Antarctica. But her biggest adventure, which was falling in love with a Croatian magician (Dragan), happened right on her own front door step in England! So far, their story includes building their own woodfired oven for The Artisan Bakery School, moving to a crazy old cottage in Devon, taking an Invisible Man to Singapore, working with children in Sri Lanka and India and kayaking round the islands of Dalmatia. Penny also runs a professional copywriting, editing and translation business. She and Dragan write together to celebrate the magic that happens in real life. *** Connect With Us *** [e-mail] www.pendragan.com

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Little Red

Written by Pendragan

with illustrations by Shelley Matheis

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Published by Pendragan Publishing

Smashwords Edition

ISBN:

Text and Illustrations Copyright © 2013 Pendragan

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Pendragan Publishing

Old Home Cottage

Sparkwell

Plymouth PL7 5DQ

United Kingdom

First Edition 2013

Table of Contents

Little Red

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Empty Cupboards

Chapter 2: Little Red Arrives

Chapter 3: Squeaky Clean

Chapter 4: A Merry Jig

Chapter 5: Wolf in Hot Water

Chapter 6: Bubble Trouble

Chapter 7: Abominable Snowman

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Rebel Rabbit Part II

A Spark in the Dark

The King’s Bump

The Cricket's Winter Song

How the Wolf Lost His Appetite

The Mole Who Wanted to Fly

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Chapter 1: Empty Cupboards

Before we begin our extraordinary tale, I want to ask you something very important. Please, please forget everything you have ever heard about Little Red Riding Hood and that Big Bad Wolf. It simply isn’t true!

Have you forgotten? Good.

Now, here’s what really happened!

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Our story begins a long time ago, in the depths of an enormous forest. In this very real forest, there really was a cosy little den, and in the den lived a very nice wolf who, through no fault of his own, was often a very hungry wolf too.

One sunny day in early