Lon Po Po

Author: Ed Young

Illustrator: Ed Young

Title: Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China

Genre: Children’s picture book,

Sub genre: Chinese folktale

Theme: Folklore Fiction

Primary and secondary characters: Shang, Tao, Paotze, Wolf

Date: 1989

Award: Caldecott Award Winner

Publisher Company: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers

Brief summary on how to use for students:  The students will be able to learn about other cultures tales of folklore that follows with red riding hood. Students can also learn about not opening the door for strangers.

Summary: Shang, Tao, Paotze have to stay home while their mother goes to visit their grandmother. The wolf over hears and dresses up like their PoPo (grandmother). The children let the wolf inside and find out that they have been tricked. The girls make a plan and tell the wolf about the magical gingko tree that will make them all youthful and healthy. The three girls climb the tree and hoist the wolf up in a basket and drop him three times and on the third time, the wolf dies from the fall. The girls carefully climb down the tree and peacefully go back to sleep. When mother arrives back home, the girls tell her about the fake PoPo.