Little Red's Day

Welcome to Hedgehogs' Story Walk. It is a linear walk which will take you right down to the town. It may make your day more interesting. As with all Traditional stories there is a point to this tale.

Just as Little Red was on a mission with a basket of food for Granny, we hope you will take up the challenge and deliver some food to Fair Frome the food bank.

One gloomy, spring morning there was an annoying young girl called Little Red who was swinging on an old dusty wooden gate. She kept saying "Mum, Mum Mum" so eventually Mum gave her something to do. "Why don't you take a basket of groceries to your granny because she is very,very poorly. Walk down the path today because of the traffic.If you want to you can take an apple for the horse."
As Little Red set off on her journey Mum called out "Don't talk to strangers and watch out for the traffic on the road!"

When she got to the big tree, she sat down and remembered the warnings that Mum had given her. Little did she know that there was already an unusual, hairy stranger, standing behind the tree watching her. On such a nice spring day, the clouds started opening showing the bright sky and she saw the blossom scrunching it's way out of tight little buds.She kept on walking making sure she kept on the pavement so she didn't get run over.

Little Red was feeling a bit hungry by now, so finding three silver coins in her pocket she popped into the Tuck shop to get some crunchy caramel biscuits and sneakily bought apples for the horse and a strawberry, orange, jelly snake that would make your mouth water.

She turned right and set off on her journey to rescue poor granny and look after her. As she walked along the road she found the blue footpath sign. It showed her the way to the footpath. "Oh that tree over there is rustling...I wonder who is hiding in it?"

Little Red skipped down the footpath whistling a tune. She was happy to be away from the road.

The day spread out like a summer's day even though it was spring. She saw a red robin singing beautiful songs on a high branch in the middle of the tree. She saw a Springer spaniel springing into Spring and dripping dirty water like a dishwasher with an open door or a flood on a wet day.

As she skipped and jumped through the woods, there was a wolf hiding behind a tree. "Tweet tweet tweet! I'm going to Granny's she sang." The bird replied with a happy whistle but he was not the only one listening.

The evil red eyed hungry wolf overheard Little Red and heard that she was going to Granny's so he quickly round to Granny's back door and sneaked in. He tied her up and threw her into a prickly, tickly flowerbed outside the window and got into Grandma's nice, warm, snuggly, flowery pyjamas and a pink, flowery shower cap. Poor granny was left shivering in the flowerbed in just her vest and knickers!

Worry rising about her granny Little Red..raced on along the path.
"Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear........"

After an exhaustingly long day, Little Red arrived at Grandma's. She let herself in, put her cakes on the kitchen worktop and made a quick pot of yummy soup and for pudding she had brought some apple and cinnamon muffins with chocolate sauce on top. The bedroom was dark and gloomy with the curtains closed.
"What a big beard you have Granny." said little Red. "All the better to tickle you with." croaked the wolf.
"What gigantic eyes you have Granny.""All the better to see you with my dear. "rasped the wolf.

"What big Jaws you have Granny. " "All the better to eat you with my dear" snarled the wolf as he jumped out of bed with his claws spread wide.
" Not while I have my sellotape with me" replied Little Red with a giggle. And she wrapped his mouth up whirling like a tornado until he looked like a sellotaped monster.
Seriously with these claws he growls furiously. But quick as a flash she taped them to his head, and left him on the train tracks.

Granny and Little Red lived happily ever after and never saw the big bad wolf ever again.
(But Granny did make some rather attractive Wolf skin knickers for particularly cold days!)

As you climb the steps to finish our storywalk you can walk past the wild garlic and up past a hole in a tree. Someone said that Badgers live near here. I wonder who lives in the in the hole, maybe a rat or a badger. Badger homes are called setts.

Here at the end was where it all began.

Up at the top of the steps you can find a stone bench and a poem.
We first found the poem when we were coming back from the museum in September. It was a long time ago. It was before we met Mr Jelley. It was before we used the iPads.
I f you have enjoyed this story then take some food to Fair Frome. It is a food bank for other people who don't have much food. They come in to school and they don't have breakfast, or they might be a granny with no Red Riding Hood to help them.
GO ON DO IT!!!!

Finally