Red Riding Hood Gets Lost by Joan Holub

Author:Joan Holub
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

Still clutching her basket, Red ran to open the door. Her friends’ faces lit up with surprised pleasure when they saw her.

“I’m so glad you’re here!” Snow exclaimed. She wrapped both arms around Red. Rapunzel and Cinda joined in, making it a four-way hug.

“We were so worried about you!” said Cinda when they finally let go. She peered around Red into the cottage. “Is Grandmother Enchantress here?”

“No, but wait till I tell you —” But before Red could tell them about Wolfgang and everything, Rapunzel interrupted. “When we realized you weren’t behind us, we tried to find you.”

Snow nodded. “We called out over and over, but you didn’t answer.”

In a rush, Red explained how she’d gotten separated from them. “I tried to find you, too, but I only got more and more lost.”

“We hoped you’d somehow find your way here to the cottage,” Cinda said. “We would’ve been here sooner ourselves if we hadn’t lost the mapestry.”

“Oh, no!” Red said. Drawing her friends inside, she shut the door behind them. “Where? How did it happen?”

Cinda looked a bit shame-faced. “I had folded it and stuck it in my pocket. It didn’t really fit all that well, so it must have fallen out without my realizing it. I’m so sorry!”

Losing the mapestry was actually a gigantic disappointment, but Red gave Cinda’s hand a quick, gentle squeeze. “Could’ve happened to anyone,” she assured her. “Especially me. I’m pretty much the queen of anything to do with the word lost!”

“We retraced our steps as best we could, but no luck,” said Snow. “It’s like it just disappeared. Poof!”

Putting aside the subject of the mapestry for now, Red began to recount some of what had happened since they’d lost each other. “Wolfgang found me. And you know those rumors about him being able to shape-shift? Well, they’re not just rumors.” She paused to let that sink in. “It was him making those wolf howls we heard earlier. He was following us, and he led me here.”

“Why?” asked Snow.

“I don’t know exactly. If you’d come two seconds sooner, you could have asked him yourself.” She pointed to the window. “He took off through there after you knocked.”

“Hmm. I’m worried about the enchantress. I mean, where is she? What if she’s in trouble?” said Cinda.

“How about if we do a little snooping?” suggested Rapunzel, gazing around the cottage. “To see if she left a note or some clue to her whereabouts.”

“Yeah, maybe we’ll turn up some clues to the treasure while we’re at it,” said Snow.

“It was my fault Wolfgang followed us,” Red admitted as she and her friends began to poke around. “I told him we were all going flower picking today, and —”

“Flower picking?” Cinda quickly closed a cupboard door on a magical sugar bowl that had tried to hop out as soon as she’d opened it.

“I had to tell him something,” said Red. “But I never told him we were going to Neverwood Forest. You see, he —”

“So he must have figured it out on his own,” Cinda interrupted again.

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