Books And Literature - Information

Novels:

Wolf by Gillian Cross (1990), winner of the 1991 Carnegie Medal. This is a very loose adaptation of the tale set in the modern day.
Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District by Manlio Argueta (1998).
Darkest Desire: The Wolf's Own Tale by Anthony Schmitz (1998).

Short Stories:

An especially notable adaptation is Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves from her collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), which focuses on the sexual aspect of the Red/Wolf relationship. This was also adapted into a film by Neil Jordan.
"Wolfland" by Tanith Lee, published in Red as Blood (1983).
"I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Woods" by Kathe Koja, published in Snow White, Blood Red (1993).
"Little Red" by Wendy Wheeler, published in Snow White, Blood Red (1993).
The Apprentice" by Miriam Grace Monfredo, published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November, 1993).
"The Good Mother" by Patricia Galloway, published in Truly Grim Tales (1995).
"Riding the Red" by Nalo Hopkinson, published in Black Swan, White Raven (1997).
"Wolf" by Francesca La Block, published in The Rose and the Beast (2000).
"Little Red and the Big Bad" by Will Shetterly, published in Swan Sister (2003).

Poetry:

"Little Red Riding Hood" by Olga Broumas, pubished in Beginning With O (1977).
"Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl, published in Revolting Rhymes (1983) - features a comical and violent twist in which Red turns the wolf into a wolf-skin coat.[7]
"The Waiting Wolf" by Gwen Strauss, published in Trail of Stones (1990).
"On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood by the Artist J.H." by Alice Wirth Gray, published in What the Poor Eat (1993).
"Journeybread Recipe" by Lawrence Schimel, published in Black Thorn, White Rose (1994).
"Little Red Cap" by Carol Ann Duffy, published in The World's Wife (1999).
"Silver and Gold" by Ellen Steiber, published in The Armless Maiden(1996).
"Grandmother" by Lawrence Syndal, published in Conjunctions #31 (1999).
"What Her Mother Said" by Theodora Goss, published in The Journal of Mythic Arts (2004).

Other retellings of the tale:

Little Red Riding Wolf, in which a game warden arrives at the last moment to save the wolf from poachers.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods plays with the typical devices of a number of different fairytales, including Little Red Riding Hood.
Radio humorist Stan Freberg performed a radio play spoofing both Little Red Riding Hood and Dragnet called "Little Blue Riding Hood".
In 1940, Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, wrote Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, where the story is told using incorrect homonyms of the correct English words.
James Thurber's short story "The Little Girl and the Wolf," features the heroine turning tables on the Wolf. The Moral says it all: "It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be."
"Little Red Riding Hood" puplished in James Finn Garner's "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" satirises politically-correct speech, focusing on such things as womyn's rights.[8] See also Politically Correct Red Riding Hood, which features a very different outcome.[9]

Many of the above short stories and poems (as well as many older texts) are collected in The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood by Jack Zipes.