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Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa | 
| Author: Niki Daly
Publisher: Clarion Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
Buy Used: $6.36
You Save: $9.64 (60%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 424727
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 10 x 0.5
ISBN: 0618723455
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.2
EAN: 9780618723454
ASIN: 0618723455
Publication Date: April 15, 2007
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
When Granny asks Pretty Salma to go to the market one day, she warns her not to talk to strangers. But cunning Mr. Dog tricks Salma, and before she knows it, he's wearing her stripy ntama, her pretty white beads, and her yellow sandals. And he's on his way to Granny's house! African culture and flavor infuse this inventive retelling of a favorite fairy tale, and the vibrant lively illustrations bring it to life. The result is a story that combines new and old and spans cultures as successfully as it has spanned the centuries.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Little Red Riding Hood, set in modern-day Ghana September 11, 2007
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In retelling "Little Red Riding Hood" in a modern, urban African setting, Niki Daly gives an old story a new spin, and makes contemporary African life a little more tangible to non-African readers. As a fairy-tale, though, the story is a bit intense: taking Red out of the distant, mythical woods and placing her instead in the much more tangible, menacing setting of the Accra marketplace, into a big city with a "wild side of town," makes the story's don't-talk-to-strangers message much more scary and real. For that reason, I'd recommend this for older kids, but not preschoolers or kindergarteners... But if you're looking for a multicultural, world-outside offering, this is a good choice. (ReadThatAgain)
 Disaster is on the horizon until Salma figures out how to thwart trouble April 14, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty Salma lives with her grandparents in town and knows the rules about talking to strangers - but when Granny asks her to do the marketing Mr. Dog tricks her into talking to him - and tricks her out of some other things, too. Suddenly he's on his way to Granny's house - in her clothing. Disaster is on the horizon until Salma figures out how to thwart trouble in this fine 'Red Riding Hood' tale from Africa, perfect for picturebook collections seeking multicultural representations of folk stories.
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