# How to compare and contrast (Little Red Riding Hood): Crash Course Kids Literature #6

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Crash Course Kids
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg
- **Дата:** 10.09.2025
- **Длительность:** 5:42
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## Описание

Fairy tales aren’t just “once upon a time…” and “happily ever after.” They can connect us to people across the world! In our final episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we compare and contrast different versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Topic: Compare and contrast
Grade level: 3rd-5th grade
Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1-3; 4.1-3, 4.9; 5.2, 5.9

Introduction: The Same Stories 00:00
Fairy Tales 0:27
Little Red Riding Hood 1:19
Versions of Little Red Riding Hood 1:51
Compare & Contrast 4:02
Review & Credits 4:54

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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg) Introduction: The Same Stories

Hey, story sleuths! Check this out: I was looking through some old R. E. A. D. Agency case files, and I noticed something interesting. The same stories popped up again and again. The details are different, but…glass slippers…mermaids…big bad animals eating little children... They’re different versions of the same story. So, what’s going on here? I’m Detective Abby, and this is Crash Course Kids Literature. [THEME MUSIC]

### [0:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg&t=27s) Fairy Tales

Today we’re talking about comparing, which means looking for similarities. And contrasting, differences. And we’re gonna do that by using fairy tales—different versions of them from all over the world! You already know all about fairy tales. We hear, read, and watch stories like “Cinderella,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and “The Three Little Pigs” all the time. And that’s because fairy tales are really common, really old stories. They’re a kind of folk tale, which means they’re stories that people have told over and over for a really long time. And they usually have some kind of important moral or lesson for us to learn. But the cool thing about folk tales and fairy tales is that there are lots of ways to tell them, and they’re told in different ways by different cultures. Here are the case notes on one you’ve probably heard many times before.

### [1:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg&t=79s) Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time, a girl was walking to bring her sick grandmother some cake. Along the way, she met a wolf. Short story even shorter: the wolf ate the grandmother. The wolf posed as the grandmother. And then the wolf then ate the little girl. “My, What big eyes you have! ” Then, a hunter came along, cut open the wolf’s stomach, and then rescued the girl and her grandmother. Phew! Good thing he showed up when he did because things were getting a little dicey in there. That story, as you’ve probably figured out, is called “Little Red Riding Hood. ” And there are lots of different ways to tell it.

### [1:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg&t=111s) Versions of Little Red Riding Hood

Like, one of the oldest versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” is called “The Wolf and the Kids. ” It’s actually about a wolf that eats young goats. Turns out, baby goats are also called “kids,” too! Who knew? Crazy! Don’t worry, you’re safe here. Then around three hundred years ago, someone in France wrote down a version of the story that ends when the wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood. No happy ending there! Well, except for the wolf. Later, some fairy tale writers in Germany, known as the Brothers Grimm, wrote a new version with a happier ending. That’s the one where the hunter saves Little Red and her grandmother. But that’s not the only “Little Red Riding Hood” story out there. There are Chinese, South African, Singaporean, and Taiwanese versions of Little Red Riding Hood, too. When we compare the things they have in common, we can tell they’re all the same basic story. But we can also contrast their differences to notice the unique ways different cultures tell the story. For example, in a Chinese version, a peasant tells his daughter to bring jujube fruits to her grandmother instead of cake. And they’re stopped by a tiger disguised as an old woman, instead of a wolf. Contrasting elements often teaches us something about the culture telling the story. Like that jujube fruit may be more common in Chinese culture than cake. Let’s look at one more. In a South African version, a girl named Tsélané has to stay at home alone while her mother goes to work. Her mother tells her not to open the door for anyone. But a giant changes his voice to sound like her mother, and Tsélané opens the door. Then, the giant grabs her and puts her in his bag. So, how does this compare and contrast with our other story versions? Well, it depends on how zoomed in or zoomed out you are. Like, we can compare and say that all three of these stories have a scary creature for a villain: a wolf, a tiger, and a giant. That’s a similarity! But if we zoom in, we can contrast the villains and say that two are animals, and one is a mythical creature. That’s two similarities and one difference! But, then, we can zoom in even further and notice that the two animal villains are different from each other. That’s one more difference!

### [4:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg&t=242s) Compare & Contrast

The similarities among these three stories show us their meaning. In each story, a child is tricked by a stranger pretending to be a family member. The stranger turns out to be dangerous, and the child is rescued while the stranger is punished. This tells us that people all over the world think this story has an important lesson: be careful who you trust, because people aren’t always what they seem. The differences make this universal lesson relate to people from different backgrounds. And get this: you can even compare and contrast stories that seem very different. Like, what about “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Charlotte’s Web”? Well, we can contrast them and point out that “Charlotte’s Web” is a novel and “Little Red” is a fairy tale. But, we can also compare them and notice they both have talking animals. This lets us make more and more connections between all the different things we read!

### [4:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWU-lMdnJg&t=294s) Review & Credits

Every person, culture, and country is different, and everyone tells stories differently. But the connections between those stories show us what matters to all of us. And that, my friends, is my last case for the R. E. A. D. Agency! Thanks for all your help, story sleuths. Now I can finally reveal the secret meaning of R. E. A. D…. Reading, Eating, And Dancing. Hit it! [dance music] Thanks for watching this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, which was filmed at the Complexly studio in Indianapolis, Indiana and was made with the help of all these fantastic people.

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