Little Red Riding Hood Goes to the Sea

Do characters in storybooks feel trapped in their plots? Do they want to jump outside? Into another book?

My first published children’s story is out! (Available in Spanish here English here and French here )

If I were Little Red Riding Hood I’d long have befriended the wolf or, probably, died attempting to. My story begins with Little Red Riding Hood wailing on the sofa, telling her mother she knows her story by heart (a forest, her mother, her grandmother, a hunter, a big bad wolf and blah, blah, blah). She dreams of going into the book standing next to hers on the shelf, a storybook about a boy who is trying to save a whale stranded on a beach. Her mum says that’s simply not possible. Matilda, the child in the room, overhears the conversation…

I’ll say no more. I hope the story encourages creativity in children and adults alike. I hope it helps question limitations, even those that have been self-imposed. And mostly, I hope you enjoy it!

An adorable reader helping Little Red Riding Hood out of her story (of which she has tired) and into a new one