Little Red Riding Hood
A free B1-level English story for language learners, readable online in 7 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A girl in a red cloak meets a cunning wolf on the way to her grandmother's.
Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived near a great forest. Her grandmother had made her a red hooded cloak, and she wore it so often that everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood.
One morning her mother said, "Take this basket of bread and butter to your grandmother, for she is not well. Walk straight there, and do not wander from the path."
On the way, Little Red Riding Hood met a Wolf. The Wolf asked where she was going, and, not knowing what a wicked creature he was, she told him about her sick grandmother.
The Wolf ran ahead by a shorter road. He reached the cottage first, slipped inside, and waited in the old woman's bed.
When Little Red Riding Hood arrived, she thought her grandmother looked very strange. "What big eyes you have!" she said. "All the better to see you with," said the Wolf. "What big teeth you have!" "All the better to eat you with!"
But her cry was heard by a woodcutter passing nearby. He rushed in with his axe and drove the Wolf away, and grandmother and child were safe.
Always keep to the path, and never talk to strangers.
