"Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl (poetry reading)

I think the Red Riding Hood story must have inspired this scary little poem by Kenneth Patchen:

Come now, my child,
If we were planning to harm you
would we be waiting for you here by the path
in the very darkest part of the forest?

The painting was by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) and it is in the Birmingham Art Gallery

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[LilMissGhostGirl]

Hey! Great poem! Would you mind if I used your recording in a video of my own? I'll give you credit in the video description and I'll send you the link when its done.

Thanks!

xxxx

[SpokenVerse]

@LilMissGhostGirl Yes, you can do that if you wish.

[pennyiscute84]

Who's reading this? Roald Dahl himself? or someone else?

[SpokenVerse]

@pennyiscute84 "Poetry read by Tom O'Bedlam" means that I read everything in this channel.

[lilvee98]

wat would happen the next time she meets the wolfs spirit

[scifiwritir]

LOL!!!! Oh my gosh! That was hilarious! Thanks, Tom!

[pennyiscute84]

@SpokenVerse oh right, i wasn't aware you read it out, only just looked at your channel now. You have a really good reading voice...KUDOS :D

[JPErdel]

This is like James Thurber's fable, "The Little Girl and the Wolf."

Thurber writes: "She had approached no further than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead. MORAL: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be."

[alanna4858]

good one. thanks. love this series. keep it up. think ill let my kids listen.

[asimovfan01]

Fun