Title and author

Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Freya Littledale

Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser

Cinderella by Susan Jeffers

Setting

Long ago, in a cottage in the woods

Dwarves house in the woods

A witch’s house in a forest in Germany

Europe, long ago, in a palace

Good character

Little Red, named for the cape her mother made for her

Snow White, a princess who is very beautiful

Hansel and Gretel

Their dad (because he didn’t want to leave them)

Cinderella, beautiful, sweet, kind, treated unfairly by her step-mother

Villain

Cunning, sly wolf

The Queen who is jealous of Snow White’s beauty

Mom (because she makes the dad abandon the kids)

The witch

Step-mother and the step-sisters

Conflict (problem)              

Wolf tricks LR into dallying in the woods. Wolf eats Grandma.

Wolf pretends to be LR’s grandma so he can eat LR up.

Queen  keeps trying to kill Snow White because she wants to be the “fairest”.  She orders the huntsman to kill her first, then she tries to kill her herself.

Mom abandons the kids in the woods.

They find the witch’s house. Then the witch tries to eat them.

Mom dies and her father remarries a mean woman who makes Cinderella do all the work.

There is a ball and Cinderella can’t go.

Solution

Woodcutter kills the wolf and saves LR and grandma

The dwarves build her a glass coffin and a prince sees her and falls in love with her. She agrees to marry him.

Gretel tricks the witch and frees Hansel. They return home with jewels.

Fairy godmother turns stuff into stuff she needs to go to the ball. Prince falls in love with her and they get married.

Magic/fantasy

Wolf can talk

Grandma and LR are still alive and well in the wolf’s belly

Talking mirror

Queen uses poisons and spells to try to kill her.

Snow White comes back to life.

House made out of food

Witch who wanted to eat the children

Fairy godmother turns objects into other objects Cinderella needs.

3s

LR says, “Oh grandma what big blah, blah, blah you have,” three times.

Queen tries to kill Snow White three different times with three different objects.

Gretel cries three times.

Lost for three days

Fairy godmother transforms Cinderella three times.

Lesson/Theme

Don’t talk to strangers. Follow the directions of your elders.

Don’t talk to strangers. Don’t let strangers in to your home.

Follow directions.

Never enter a stranger’s house. Use your thinking and your bravery to stick up for yourself and your family.

If you live our life in a kind way, you will be rewarded with good things that happen to you.