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Little Red Riding Hood is taking a walk with a pretty red balloon, it’s lighter and more ethereal than a basket. In order to increase this effect, I work on the vertical lines of the trees and never show the ground in the whole book.

After “The Highway Code” and “The Smartest One”, it’s the third time I revisit Little Red Riding Hood’s story. At each rereading, this story troubles and intrigues me. It is for me an inexhaustible source of ideas. It’s the story of a mother who has heard that her own mother (the grandmother) is ill. You’d think she’d rush to see how bad it was. Not at all! She sends her daughter, who is still a child, instead! (I hope the grandmother doesn’t suffer from a contagious disease).
What’s more, to reach the grandmother’s house, there is a wood to cross. Now, not only does the mother not warn her child that she might meet the wolf, she even dresses her in red… (the child has no chance to get by unnoticed). Incredible, is it not?

Nowadays, children are no longer threatened by wolves in woods and yet, the story works just as well. The wolf is a symbol. Big bad wolves by now act in the city centre and are far more dangerous than those which used to hide in the wood.

Fairy tales will always be relevant because they concern fundamental things, which never change, in spite of the modern world. Reread the original version written by Perrault in 1697. It is a jewel of the French language.