![]() Montresor-an admired set designer as well as a Caldecott medalist (1965)-provides a theatrical setting with elegant architectural forms and a stylized forest in finely detailed black touched with soft color the dapper, white-suited wolf is an appealingly furry seducer, his victim a blond innocent. ![]() For many, Perrault's original version will be unfamiliar-it concludes with the wolf eating Red Riding Hood (in this faithful, economical translation, ``devouring'' her). ![]() In his introduction to this ``beautiful, violent tale,'' Luciano Pavarotti suggests that these illustrations ``will leave you breathless.'' That's an understatement. ![]()
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