Recycling Red Riding Hoodexamines contemporary retellings of the world's best-known fairy tale in a large corpus of international children's texts, many of which have never been translated into English. The book addresses a new area in children's literary theory and criticism: intertextuality and the retold story. It examines narrative techniques, such as hybrid genres and metaliterary play, that have rarely been applied to children's literature.

Examines contemporary retellings of perhaps the world's best-known fairy tale in a large corpus of international children's texts, many of which have never been translated into English.