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.