Little Red Riding Hood, Reinvented

Vivian Vande Velde is no stranger to folktales.  Nor does she hesitate to write what she thinks.  So when she cited "Little Red Riding Hood" as "the perfect example of the exact opposite of a good story," it raised my eyebrows.  Not content to leave it at that, Vande Velde created Cloaked in Red, a collection of eight new tellings of "Little Red Riding Hood."  I don't know if Vande Velde's tellings will be as universal as the original(s), but they certainly are unique.  Like she did earlier in The Rumplestiltskin Problem, Vande Velde honors the folktale by creating so many great spoofs of it.