There is NO Big Bad Wolf in this Story

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There is NO Big Bad Wolf in this Story

Lou Carter and Deborah Allwight

(Bloomsbury)

There is NO Big Bad Wolf in this Story. It seems that he’s just had enough! After all, he’s expected to trick Little Red Riding Hood, and thereafter, chase ‘little piggies’, blow ‘down their houses’ and fall ‘down their chimneys’! It seems that he’s expected to ‘get to Grandma’s house before Little Red Riding Hood arrives’ yet have all his ‘huffing and puffing‘ finished at the same time! He is ‘seriously frazzled’. Thereafter he decides ‘it’s completely impossible’ and he ‘won’t put up with it anymore’.

Yet, how can these stories succeed without a major character like Wolf? They might try to get along with it, but it’s harder than it looks. What’s more, alternative characters, like Dragons, could be ‘a disaster’!

Fractured fairytales are some of the most enjoyable stories to share and thereafter imagine. Yet few writers extend this genre in quite the same way as Lou Carter and Deborah Allwright. It seems as though the characters are really living, viable creations. We saw this in their There Is No Dragon In This Story, beloved by Bookwagon readers. Therefore, we are delighted to see similar journeying, bold pictures, animation and imaginative contemplations. It means that There is No Big Bad Wolf in this Story is a truly satisfying picture book, ideal for sharing at bedtime and thereafter lingering over during repeated readings. Can the Three Little Pigs, Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother, inspire a change of heart for Wolf? Might they mend their ways?