Picture Book-12

Author: Ed Young
Title: Lon Po Po
Illustrator: Ed Young
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Nursery story
Theme: Creativity
Primary and Secondary characters: Shang, Tao, and Poatze. Mother and wolf.
Awards, date of publication: 1989
Publishing company: Scholastic Inc.
This is story of a woman leaving her children at home while she visits her own mother. While the mother is gone, a wolf disguises himself as their grandmother and tries to get them to open the door so he can eat them. The children unknowingly open the door and begin to ask the wolf why his voice had changed from their grandmothers. The wolf then blows out the candles and sneaks into the bed with the children. However, in bed the children feel the fur on his tail and his sharp claws. At once one of the children lit a light and saw that the wolf was not grandma. The children then tricked the wolf to climb into a basket and said that they would pull him up to get food. The children then pulled him almost up and then dropped him so that he would die from his injuries. The mother arrived home and the children then had a story to tell her. This would teach the children that sometimes bad things happen to good people.