<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Little Red Riding Hood The version found in The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace E. Scudder . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf . Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century by several European folk tales, including one from Italy called The False Grandmother (Italian: La finta nonna), later written among others by Italo Calvino in the Italian Folktales collection; the best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. . The story has been changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern adaptations and readings . Other names for the story are: "Little Red Ridinghood", "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Riding Hood". It is number 333 in the Aarne - Thompson classification system for folktales . </P> <P> The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood . In Grimms' and Perrault's versions of the tale, she is named after her magical red hooded cape / cloak that she wears . The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path . </P>

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