“I told her and I told her: daughter, you must teach that child the facts of life before it is too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red,” a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood.” In his fairy tale Perrault distances girls from male nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation the objective remains the same: through the biographical story of the grandmother, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent. This modern fairy tale contains different characters but none of them are as important as the grandmother. In fact, through his narration, the reader acquires basic information regarding the family context. The story revolves around a grandmother, a mother and a granddaughter, which thus defines the point of view of the story, the grandmother is the narrator so the reader has the perception of it. In addition to the domestic context, the lack of other contextual clues, such as the time or place of the story, leaves room for her story and its ultimate purpose: to teach and, at the same time, protect her niece from the risks posed by men here symbolized by a wolf. The way this unnamed grandmother reveals her life exemplifies two properties of the fairy tale mentioned by Marina Warner in “The Old Wives' Tale”: “Fairy tales exchange knowledge [using morals] between a voice of older experience [the more often than not female] and a younger audience” (314). As suggested in the text, fairy tales are a way to teach insights into life through simple stories aimed, in most cases, at younger generations. In most cases, since the moral work of fairy tales on a different sheet......is not approached as if "the fairy tale is a property and can be taken by its owner and read by its owner at will." his free time to escape, console himself or inspire himself. (Zipes 1999, 338). Hopkinson uses the narrator to spread a moral similar to that of Perrault three hundred years ago. Girls, especially if they are young and inexperienced, must be careful when meeting cute and charming men because they risk ending up in a completely undesirable situation. It is then that the grandmother intervenes, trying to complete her granddaughter's education by informing her of that special event and providing her with advice to avoid the same experience. Indeed, the fairy tale has an educational mission in addition to that of entertainment. Hopkinson provides a moral to the reader through a modern and revisited story, perhaps more suitable for today's reader but without weakening its quintessence.