Cover artwork for Little Red Riding Hood

Free app storyPersonalisableClassic Tales

Personalise ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Storybook

Little Red Riding Hood follows the woodland path to Granny's cottage, where careful thinking helps her uncover a wolf's trick and bring everyone safely home.

Create a child-friendly version of Little Red Riding Hood starring the children you love. Personalise Red and choose a reading level designed for ages 0-4, ages 5-7, and ages 8-11.

An activity book is also available in the MyStoryWorld.app app.

Story lesson

Keep trusted adults informed, protect private information, and pause to think when something does not feel right.

About the book

About our child-friendly Little Red Riding Hood story

Little Red Riding Hood is a gentle, child-friendly retelling of the public-domain European fairy tale. It keeps the red cape, woodland journey, disguised wolf, and famous questions while replacing graphic danger with clever choices, clear boundaries, and a reassuring ending.

Versions of Little Red Riding Hood have travelled through oral and written traditions for centuries. This adaptation preserves the familiar journey-and-disguise structure while supporting family conversations about privacy, trusted adults, and what to do when something feels wrong.

Classic Tales · Designed for ages 0-4, ages 5-7, and ages 8-11 · Red can be personalised · Free app story available · Themes include Careful thinking, Safe choices, and Trusted adults

A scene from Little Red Riding Hood

Illustrated scene 1 from Little Red Riding Hood

This scene shows the original story edition. Personalised books recreate the illustrations around the selected characters.

Meet the characters

Little Red Riding Hood characters

Meet the original cast of Little Red Riding Hood and discover which roles are best suited to personalisation—and why.

Character reference sheet showing the cast of Little Red Riding Hood — Use the guidance below to see which characters are best suited to personalisation and why.

Red

Ideal for personalisation

A warm, observant young traveller in a red hooded cape who learns to protect private information and trust careful thinking.

Why: Red is the child protagonist and story viewpoint character, so a child can naturally take her place throughout the woodland journey.

Granny

Cannot be personalised

Red's calm, resourceful grandmother, who stays safe and helps Red respond firmly to the wolf's trick.

Why: Granny's family relationship, age and specific part in resolving the wolf's disguise are important to this adaptation and remain fixed.

Rowan

Cannot be personalised

A shaggy charcoal-grey wolf whose selfish shortcut and silly disguise fail when Red and Granny think carefully together.

Why: Rowan is the animal trickster and story antagonist, so replacing him with a real person would both change the fairy-tale role and portray that person negatively.

Learning and connection

What children can learn from Little Red Riding Hood

Introduces a classic public-domain fairy tale and its repeating question pattern.
Encourages discussion about safe routes, private information, and asking trusted adults for help.
Builds vocabulary around forests, cottages, observation, disguise, and responsibility.

Character personalisation

Who can be personalised in Little Red Riding Hood?

After entering your characters, assign them to one of the supported roles below. Their photo is used to recreate the character artwork for the new customer book.

Red

A warm, observant young traveller in a red hooded cape who learns to protect private information and trust careful thinking.

Adaptation source

Where Little Red Riding Hood comes from

Based on a public-domain European fairy tale. This MyStoryWorld.app edition has been adapted for modern, child-friendly reading while preserving the red cape, woodland path, disguised wolf, and careful questions.

Source: Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, translated by J. E. Mansion and Robert Samber, Project Gutenberg eBook #29021)

Personalisation

Make Little Red Riding Hood uniquely theirs

Add your child, choose the details, and we'll create a story written and illustrated around the characters you choose.

1. Add your child or charactersInclude your child and any friends or family.
2. Choose who plays RedYour child can become Red in Little Red Riding Hood.
3. Choose their reading ageSelect ages 0-4, ages 5-7, and ages 8-11.
4. We create their storyMyStoryWorld.app writes and illustrates the adventure around your choices.