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This famous tale is short but very SNAPPY !
We bring you the Charles Perrault version – and he doesn’t mince his words. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ! You may have heard this story before with a happy twist at the end. In this one that doesn’t happen. The Brothers Grimm were more kind to Little Red Riding Hood. (Compare versions if you are interested).
The moral of the tale should ring through today “DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS !!” This is Red Riding Hood’s fatal mistake when she meets the wolf on the way to Grandma’s.
Read by Natasha. Duration 7 minutes 10.
Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.”
Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.
As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, “I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.”
“Does she live far off?” said the wolf
“Oh I say,” answered Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village.”
“Well,” said the wolf, “and I’ll go and see her too. I’ll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first.”
The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers. It was not long before the wolf arrived at the old woman’s house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother.”
The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out, “Pull the string, and the latch will go up.”
The wolf pulled the string n, and the door opened, and then he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it been more than three days since he had eaten. He then shut the door and got into the grandmother’s bed, expecting Little Red Riding Hood, who came some time afterwards and knocked at the door: tap, tap.
“Who’s there?”
Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered, “It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood, who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter mother sends you.”
The wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could, “Pull the string, and the latch will go up.”
Little Red Riding Hood pulled the string, and the door opened.
The wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes, “Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come sit on the bed with me.”
Little Red Riding Hood sat on the bed. She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
“All the better to hug you with, my dear.”
“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”
“All the better to run with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big ears you have!”
“All the better to hear with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”
“All the better to see with, my child.”
“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”
“All the better to eat you up with.”
And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up.
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201 Comments
it is a nice story…
But I think it is not full.
And it makes me sad.
It should write down all the stories.
The video version of the story is so cool! I’m going to try and watch it on my ipod!
Mmmmmmmm……I wonder if Colin listens to an ipod like Bertie.
I liked the story. I want to hear a different story.
SAM CURLEY
I liked the story. I want to hear a different story.
SAM CURLEY
I liked the story. I want to hear a different story.
yea its a very good story thenks Natasha
I loved this story the most
MY DAUGHTER LOVE Little Red Riding Hood THANK YOYU .
This is my faveorite farytale! It is so exiting! if tou are a person who likes exiting stories go to your stories and try reading the Rea.
I must have led a sheltered childhood… I had never heard a version in which the wolf actually succeeded in eating Red Riding Hood. There was always the woodsman to defend her. And so, I have to say, I was rather disappointed when listening to this aloud with my daughter. I suppose I should have listened to it by myself first though.
We’ve always enjoyed your work though, so please don’t take this the wrong way.
Hi Brooke – Sorry if your daughter didn’t like the ending. We do warn that it’s short and Snappy.
In the Brothers Grimm version a wood cutter cuts open the wolf to let Little Red Riding Hood out.
There’s no need to listen yourself – you can always run an eye across the text.
Thanks for your feedback.
weird. it just is. i never heard that ending before
is this a video with story aor just the sound for ipod
K We’ve got various options.
You can play the video slideshow on the web page.
Just below the video is an MP3 audio link which will work on most players.
Also, if you want a version that will play on an iPod with pictures (mp4a) it’s here
http://storynory.com/2007/06/03/little-red-riding-hood-podcast-version/
Hope it’s not too confusing!
kool
yes ilike this story so much.ofcourse no.and i like to tell something else like . i love stories o much because it is intresting and fanastic
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goodbye
yes i like this story so much.ofcourse no.and i like to tell something else like . i love stories o much because it is intresting and fanastic
by yara amer fouad al-kssamani
goodbye
i love thes story
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woo~~~~so scare~~ but it’s a good story
It is a good story , but I think it isn’t full.The ending of this story is they are all saved by a woodcutter.
Dear Cinde – This is the short and snappy version. If you follow the link at the top of the page you can compare The Brothers Grimm’s story with this one by Charles Perault.
Thanks For listening ! And I hope the ending wasn’t too scary.
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awesome story!
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i luv this story ! i can write it in 50 words can u ?
wrong! The little girl will be save. Why nobody write the ending?
I LOVE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loved it want to hear more
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It’s cool but a little sad because the got eaten
Maybe it could be happier I LOVE IT <3
Do you like it……I DO!
This story is fun.So I love your story.
This story is fun.Nice and I love your story.
i need tom find the biiblograhphy and ii also need to find some other facts about the sotry of the littke red ridung hood.
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I LOVED THIS STORY SO MUCH THANKS SO MUCH
love the story.
how sad
me and my friend marshae made up saremar we LOVE this story it ROCKS and so does LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD SHE’S CUTE!
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LIL RED RIDING HOOD IS SO CRAZY TO TALK 2 A WOLF.
LIL RED RIDING HOOD IS SO ANOINING SOMTIMES IN THE STORY!!!!!!!!
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It was awesome but i thought the wood cutters got the grandma and the wolf had died?
Hi Brandan
The woodcutters come to the rescue in the Brothers Grimm version. This earlier version by Charles Perrault ends more suddenly but more logically.
the story is grate
I like this video:]
i really liked this story thanks alot
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IT COOOOL STORY
It’s a nice story
This story was good.
HI, I’M FROM DENMARK
AND THIS STORY WAS NICE
I LIKE TO HERE YOUR RIDDING STORIES UP
I HERE STORENORY STORIES EVEREDAY : – )
This story was nice. I really like the story. It was very intresting, but I don’t really like the wolf because he is really bad. I like Little Red Riding Hood.
The story is quite good. It was intresting.
That was a nice story.That is the best I have heard!!!
yes it was a very snappy story
date:sat 11:10 8th of march 2008
This is a cooooooooooooooooooool story
This is my favorite tale and it is a very good tale.
This is a funny sory haha lol
wow so scared,a wolf want to ate a little children?!!!!!
the story is so touched , but the end of this story seems not to be like what I have heard long time ago.
As I remember , the wolf would be killed by one hounter and he saved the little red riding hood . If so , the end of this story would be more interesting but not so sad !
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I like this story very much!!!
Do you like it ?
I think so.
Wonderful, great! I’m french and I’m looking for english tales with a really goog taling, I found it!Have you got simple tales for beginners? (frist year english)Thank you it’s so cool!
seei je ql..samo bi se lahko malo drugače končala
..aja Im from slovenija 
..the story is very good 
That story was cool. I Wonder if the cakes were good.
wow, nice but it end badly…can u jus say it in a nice ending but not a bad ending…ermmm..and it does not flows as nice as a river…try to say in a happily day…
coz i know english i am a teacher
good try….bravo story
Oh,no!I don’t like the cold and sad
story.The Little Red Riding Hood is
too poor.
long time ago, i read the story, but that story
has a creditably sequel, but this sequel can tell us a tora.
I like it!
it is great
There’s no need to listen yourself – you can always run an eye across the text.
The Comment below this don’t written by myself.I like this story!
The Comment above this don’t written by myself.I like this story!
This famous tale is short but very SNAPPY !
Haha i think i am going to write this stort in my HOMEWORK!
i totally love this story it rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! p.s i love monkeys
that was cool man i like this
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i like your story
This famous tale is short but very SNAPPY !
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
I LIKE YOUR STORY THANK YOU
YOUR STORY WAS GOOD I LIKE IT
i think its not bad
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Congratulations. Great reading!
what a nice popular story! i did love it.
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I am in msharborugh
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hey amy girl
Thank you very much, awesome story!
Bertie This Was Not Told The Right Way
Because a wood chopper comes and
kills the wolf
anyway
i also wanted to say i L.O.V.E
LOVE Story Nory
bertie if you are a frog how do
you write comments?????????
but why don’t you make a WALL-E
Story Nory
Jemma English
Hello Jemma, Maybe one day somebody will help us make a Wall-e. We would love that.
The wood chopper comes in the Brothers Grimm version of the story. It’s up to you to decide which one you believe.
Many thanks for your enthusiasm for Storynory !
Very good and refreshing to see different versions of a classic.:D
i love that book duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i thought it was very sad and are the woodcutters not meant to come and cut the grandmother and little red riding hood out???
good story though well written! xx
you’r stories are cool
nice story and nice ending
it was very SCARY!!!!!!!
I love this story about Little Red Riding Hood i’ve loved this story since I was little baby.I got a copy of this story The Little Red Riding Hood.I REALLY LOVE THIS STORY AND I REALLY THINK THAT THIS STORY IS REALLY CCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
i reallly likeiiiiiiiii likeiiiiii.
I like this story because it is a fairytale and this story is also interesting that’s why i like to read this story.
I like the bit when the wolf pretnd to be grand-ma.
This should have a bttr ending!
this was a good story.
This is really nice it is not scarey at all!!!
I love this story
good
I love this story
woooooowwww thank youuuuuu
I love storynory
I loved the story i hope u liked it
the best bit was wen she was tinking the hie food to hir nan
cooooooooooooooool!!!i love that story !!!!!
the story is nice and i really love tragedic endings…..but it would be better if there is a fight scene between the wolf and the woodcutter….
good job by the way!!!!(-.-)
This was a exstreamle good story of the little red riding hod
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This was scary! i almost peed on myself!
great great great x 3000000
but i want to read more story about little red riding hood
and hunter came to the house
he saved them..
i want little red riding hood 2!
Jenny.. The hunters come to rescue Little Red Riding Hood in the version by the Brothers Grimm. This is the Charles Perrault version, which ends more suddenly.
wery gud
))
Er… wolf ate little red riding hood? i thought a man killed wolf and take wolf’s body off then got grandmother out and red hood fed her grandmother and man.
Hi Yeh-Jun … .This is the earlier version of Little Red Riding Hood… See above
i like this tale
to miss bird I HAVE FEND THET THE STORY OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD IS SITING TO TIERNEY MUM AND CAEDEN AND EMILY.
I like this story 6^u^6
but l want to read more story about litle red riding hood and the hunter came to the house.
this story makes me feel happy!!
?….i love it very much………..
i loved reading that bool when i was little i been looking for this website all day inn i found it
i like this story a lot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this story is REALLY good
good story cool
I like this is a good story
the mother side at he his name is zac
ok so you tell the stories of Charles Perrault but not Brother Grims not to be too rude what’s in Charles Perrault but not in Brother Grims??
very good
good story
^^
A+
im british
Dear Salwa, we have loads of brothers Grimm, but in the case of Little Red Riding Hood we tell the Perrault version which came first.
For Brothers Grimm please see
http://storynory.com/category/brothers-grimm/
Bertie? Why did the wolf ate her I thought that a hunter cutted the tummey of the wolf and she was alive again.
But I still like it.
ohh wow.. you spelled ‘red’ wrong it would be READ … -_- wow..
Cam, There can be a difference between mistyping a word and spelling it wrong ! Anyway thank you. I’ve changed it.
I WANT TO PRINT THIS
Dear Anon, I’ll make sure that easy printing is reinstalled soon.
Are there any fairytales???I luv Fairytales….:-)
I love this story.I gain a lot of lessons.By the way,do you have some story?I love stories!!!!!!!!!!!!
i thnk that stories should be read without natasha announcing her name and what the prince wants her to do. it takes away the eagerness of the readers
Sandy, we do try to get to the story as quickly as possible – but we think 45 seconds on what the story is about helps set the scene.
it is very good thanks
U ARE THE BEST OF ALL
it is avery good history
BYE¡
Should’nt this story be sponsered
by Portable Kids?
very cool i liked the wolf and more wolfs will come to eat u ha ah ha
I LOVE TO READ LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.I REALY ENJOYED READING THESE BOOK.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GRANDMOTHER…
…LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD IS THE BOMB
Hey great story love it!!LOL
this story was very nice and intresting.i enjoyed it.
beautiful story!thanks
this is really good i think or believe as u some would say
this story is cool but u could inprove the ending
dear sir or madam i am writing to you to ask what was little red riding hunds name in real life now your sencerly megan walker
Megan, I really don’t know what Little Red Riding Hood’s Real name was
i like it but iam sad becoz it is incomplete
ilike it but it is incomplete
Areej, our Little Red Riding Hood story does actually stop a little more abruptly than some versions.
i love u babby
I love your stories. Thank you for reading it so well.
cruel wolf.poor red riding hoodhow will the parents get to know that little red riding hood has been eaten up by the wolf?.that also story nory should add.Natasha please take care of that,if ur r reading my comment
Kuljit, we try not to think about things like that – it’s just a story !
Very good story-telling! I love the changes in your voice and determination in your acting. Though I was surprised you told the scarier version of LRRH; it ended with the wolf gobbling her up. Snappy, indeed!
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