What is the origin of Little Red Riding Hood, and how has the story been interpreted through the years?

Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

What is the origin of Little Red Riding Hood, and how has the story been interpreted through the years? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Little Red Riding Hood

In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Little Red Riding Hood

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