Little Red, The Detective By Author Lois Wickstrom – Book Review

By Phoebe Wilby

Cover Blurb:

Little Red is Learning to be a Detective. And Grannie is Teaching her to Identify Plants. Grannie asks Little Red to bring her some cone flowers to make delicious tea. While Little Red is walking through the woods to Grannie’s house, she meets a wolf who gives her a bunch of cone-shaped purple flowers. She thanks the wolf and then gets out her plant identification book. While she is comparing the flowers to the pictures in her book, the wolf trots along down the path. When Little Red arrives at Grannie’s house, she senses things aren’t right. Little Red must use her new detective skills to determine if Grannie is who she says she is. She already knows the flowers the wolf gave her weren’t cone flowers. Red comes up with a plan to help save the day – all with a little help from science.

Little Red, The Detective By Author Lois Wickstrom – Book Review

Little Red, the Detective is a classic stranger-danger tale borrowing heavily on ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Red’s Grandma needs a specific flower to make her delicious peppery tea and asks Red to pick some for her on her way to visit. She meets the wolf, who gives her the wrong flowers and then skips off to Grandma’s, where the classic tale takes over – to a point.

Red must use her deductive skills to determine if that really is Grandma or if it’s a wolf in Grandma’s clothing.

The stories are illustrated by delightfully simple and colourful pictures by Francie Mion.

With nothing to detract from the experience, I award this book 5 stars.

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