Perrault Tales

These are fairy tales writen by Charles Parrault.
I read the fairy tales online and so this is the link since I could not find any of the information.
http://www.angelfire.com/nb/classillus/images/perrault/perra.html

These make me a little sad, they don't have the best of endings but are more like the fairy tales I remember as a child, just without the happily ever after.  But I did enjoy them.
I would recomend that parents read these to their kids, once they get a little older, or well maybe for kids to just find them on their own.
The only issue I find wrong is when I think fairy tale I think happily ever after, not someone getting eaten and that is how the story ends.

"Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end. As you’re pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, Gay, or charming never mind! Now, as then, ‘tis simple truth— Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!"

Little Red Ridding Hood

This story is of a  little girl who went on a trip to see her sick grandmother.  She was called Little Red Ridding Hood because of the red hood that she wore.  Her mother one day sent her with a cake and butter to give to her grandmother.  So Red Ridding Hood set off into the woods to deliver the itams to her grandmother.  Along the way she ran into a wolf.  This wolf asked her where she was going.  Red Ridding Hood Responded and told the wolf that she was off to see her grandmother.  The wolf asked if it was far and Red Ridding Hood told him where she lived.  So the wolf decied that he would go see her too, BUT he would take one path and she the other and they would see who would get there first.  So the wolf took off running and Red Ridding Hood took her time and entertained her self by picking barries and what not while she traveled.  The wolf got to the house first.  He knocked on the door and made himself sound like Red Ridding Hood.  The grandmother told the wolf how to open the door and he entered and went to the old lady and ate her up.  Then came Red Ridding Hood to the door and she knocked.  The wolf now pretending to be her grandmother told her how to get in and Red Ridding Hood came in.  The wolf invieted her into bed with him, so she got into bed and noticed something not right. 

As the story goes, the famous lines...
“The better to embrace you, my child!” “Grandmother dear, what big legs you have!” “The better to run with, my child!” “Grandmother dear, what big ears you have!” “The better to hear with, my child!” “Grandmother dear, what big eyes you have!” “The better to see with, my child!” “Grandmother dear, what big teeth you have!” “The better to eat you with!”
With these words the wicked Wolf leaped upon Red Riding Hood and gobbled her up.

Here are three other fairy tales by Perrault that I read:
Sleeping Beauty
Puss in Boots
Cinderella