“I told her and I told her: daughter, you must teach that child the facts of life before it is too late” (Hopkinson 1). They are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's fairy tale "Riding the Red", a modern adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Perrault provided a moral to his fairy tales, that of this one is to prevent girls from having male nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation the objective remains the same: through the biographical story of the grandmother, the author proposes a revisited but still effective moral: beware of wolves even if they seem innocent. This modern fairy tale contains different characters but none of them are as important as the grandmother. Through his narration, the reader gets all the information needed to understand the story. Indeed, by telling her own story, she provides the reader with the family context in which the story is set with her niece and her daughter but, more importantly, she provides details about her own life that are supposed to teach and therefore protect her niece from men. , and then save her to bear or experience her past pains. This unnamed grandmother recounts her life in the form of a fairy tale that exemplifies two main properties of the fairy tale, as mentioned by Marina Warner in “The Old Wives' Tale”: “Fairy tales exchange knowledge [through morals] between an older person [ most often female] voice of experience and a younger audience.” 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. Most of the time because fairy tales work on different moral levels that are directed at categories of people, for example in “Little Red Riding Hood” the moral... middle of the paper... Ult's fairy tale: "Little Red Riding Hood." Both Hopkinson's and Avery's wolves share some human qualities that make him even more dangerous to innocent young girls. Hopkinson uses the narrator to spread the same morals that Perrault did three centuries ago, to girls, especially the youngest and most inexperienced ones. girls need to be careful when meeting kind and charming men, because it may end up in a completely unwanted situation. For this reason the grandmother intervenes, trying to complete her granddaughter's education by telling her her own story in which she will be able to find advice that will save her from enduring the same experience as her grandmother. The fairy tale, in fact, has an educational mission as well as that of pure entertainment. Hopkinson provides a moral to the reader through a modern and different story, more suitable for today's reader but without weakening its quintessence.