Lon Po Po

Young, Ed (1989). Lon Po Po. New York, New York: Scholastic.
This version of Little Red Riding Hood takes place in China. In this story the mother goes off to visit the grandmother and leaves the three children home alone. Shang, Tao, and Paotze are told to lock the door while mother is gone. The wolf sees the mother leaves and goes to the door pretending to be the grandmother (Po Po). The children invite her in, and she blows out the candle. The story follows the questing of the wolf as in other versions of Red Riding Hood. Shang realizes that the wolf is indeed a wolf. She tells the wolf that they are going out to pick nuts. They climb up into a tall tree while the wolf paces below. The wolf wants up in the tree so the children tell him that they will pull him up in a basket. Three times they pull the wolf up only to let go of the rope causing the wolf to fall. This kills the wolf and the children are safe when mother returns.
The color is the first thing that the reader notices about the illustration. The color pallet is all black, browns, and reds. The shapes are all very simple and the lines very clean. It goes along with the sparse telling of the tale.