Red Riding Hood

The first ever 'shape' Children's Book published and mass-produced in the United States.

This beautiful full-color book is in the shape of Red Riding Hood herself.

Written, designed and illustrated by Lydia Louisa Anna Very.

Published in 1863 by Louis Prang in Boston.

The wonderful book contains sixteen pages with two beautiful illustrations and eight lovely lines of poetry on each page.

The front-cover and back-cover show Red Riding Hood with a basket in her hands and the wolf curled at her feet.

Based on Charles Perrault's classic tale, the wolf is so friendly in this one (at the start!).

There was a lonely cabin

Within a dark, old wood,

And in it, with her mother

There dwelt Little red Riding Hood.

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One morn the mother started

The maid upon her way,

And said now you must carry

To grandmamma today,

This little pot of butter

I've churned so nice and sweet;

And mind not stop and prattle

With any one you meet!

Then through the shady forest

The little maiden went;

And though her steps were fleetest,

The day was night well spent,

When nearly through her journey,

An old, gaunt Wolf she spied,

Who wagged his tail, and humbly

Came walking by her side.

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