![]() ![]() The book won a Caldecott Medal for illustration in children’s books in 1984 and the Golden Kite and Parents’ Choice awards for illustration in 1983. Caswell said he did not know which school districts in the state that use the book. ![]() The book, which made the state’s recommended supplemental reading list for 5- and 6-year-olds, has done “very well in California,” Caswell said, adding that only a school district in Modesto has rejected it. “We feel it is a very well-told and very beautifully illustrated book,” said Sandy Caswell, a spokesman for Houghton-Mifflin Co., in a telephone interview at the publisher’s Boston headquarters. Culver City will continue to use the text and the other supplemental readers. The Hyman version of the classic is part of a 10-book soft-cover series supplement to a first-grade text. “Showing the grandmother who has consumed half a bottle of wine with a red nose is not a lesson we want to teach,” Jacobs said. Little Red Riding Hood is seated next to her sipping her cup of blackberry tea. In one of the illustrations, the grandmother’s face is flush as she sits at a table holding a glass of wine. “After a while the grandmother felt quite strong and healthy.” “The grandmother drank some of he wine and Little Red Riding Hood had a cup of blackberry tea,” the book says. In another passage, after the wolf is killed by the woodsman, the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood are seated, eating the contents of the basket. ![]()
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