Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

It touches Valerie's family and the families of her friends. There is a Blood Moon and the Wolf starts killing the townspeople. However, during Valerie's first harvest as a village woman, things change. Once a month, the villagers take turns leaving an animal sacrifice on the altar, appeasing the wolf on the full moon and ensuring another month of safety for the village. She lives in a world that is terrorized by a wolf. Red Riding Hood is the story of Valerie, a wood cutter's daughter. Once there, she was immersed in the world of Red Riding Hood and found the characters and the voices to tell more of the story. However, Hardwicke felt that there was so much to the story, beyond the scope of the movie, that she brought Sarah Blakley-Cartwright to the film set in Vancouver. The original idea belonged to Leonardo DiCaprio and was the basis for the script written by David Leslie Johnson. As Catherine Hardwicke, the movie's director, explains in the introduction. I was surprised to find that this is a book based on the movie and not the other way around. The trailer looked interesting, so when I saw Red Riding Hood in Target I picked it up thinking I'd like to read it before seeing the movie since, for me, the book is usually better. However, once I saw the movie trailer, I knew it was a different take on the Little Red Riding Hood story, not Pearce's story. In fact, I thought it might be based on a book I'd read not too long ago called Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce since the timing seemed relevant. When I first heard of Red Riding Hood, the movie, I thought it sounded interesting.

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright