Kevin Peterson

This is not little red riding hood, and yet to me the paintings of Kevin Peterson very much encapsulate one of the streams of interpretation of this ancient fairytale. The coupling of the wild with the young innocent human in a decaying urban setting is a modern day fairytale, an observation, a post-warning of our destruction and the demise of all we hold sacred.

"I’m trying to capture a moment. These moments usually contain a stark contrast between subject and environment. The innocence of a child against a ragged, defiled backdrop. I put a child in an environment that you wouldn’t normally see a young person alone, I think it’s a metaphor for growing up. Its about that stuff we all go through that forms who we are as adults. Little traumas or sometimes big ones, all of those things that form our defenses and cause us to build walls and inner strength. Time is another important aspect of my work. The way we change and the way our environment changes around us." Kevin Peterson

John Lurie

John Lurie, 'Our wolf lady of the wolf flowers' from 2017.

Emily Van Overstraeten

Emily Van Overstraeten's wolf, Oh! heartbreakingly sad. Emily is based in Antwerp.

she studied her masters in Illustration at St-Lucas School of Arts.

Yukari Miyagi

Little Red Riding Hood by Japanese illustrator Yukari Miyagi

Penny Neville-Lee

Penny Neville-Lee's Keep to the path tiny Red Riding Hood for this months House of Illustration Drawing Challenge inspired by John Vernon Lord.

Hom 平常心

A wonderful wolf at the drawing board by Hom平常心.

Mariachiara Digiorgio

One of a series of black, white and red in 2011 by Mariachiara Digiorgio

Kaye Blegvad

Kaye Blegvad's new book 'Dog Years' is about depression, Kaye's way of allowing people a window to see what depression is like is by creating the metaphor of owning a bad dog.

Depression is like owning a bad dog. This is a book about learning to live with that dog, training it, making peace with it, and realizing you aren't alone. 

“So many people don’t really understand mental health issues, and are so fast to judge someone who’s suffering as being lazy, or weak, or self-destructive. It’s hard to communicate what you’re experiencing when you’re in that dark place, having something solid, and from a third party, can make a big difference. That’s what motivated me to do the book – hearing that this story has helped other people feel less alone has, in turn, made me feel less alone, too.”Kaye Blegvad

 Kaye developed the book after delivering a surprisingly successful talk to the Society of Illustrators  on the theme of survival. The talk flowed easily and then developed naturally into a book. It is not Little Red Riding Hood but it so easily could be, that I have included it here.

Bernadette Watts

Bernadette Watts Little Red Riding Hood was first published fifty years ago by the Oxford University Press in 1968. There is a charming interview with Bernadette about her early life and first steps into being a published children's illustrator. Born in 1942 Bernadette was a shy child, late to go to school she was encouraged creatively by her mother who was an artist and her father who was an architect. She studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent with Brian Wildsmith as a tutor.

Gudong

Chinese illustrator Gudong has given little Red Riding Hood an extra dimension to her character with a goose head hoodie, an angel to try and guide her?