Lon Po Po

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This is the Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood.  In the story, the mother leaves 3 children home alone as she goes to visit the grandmother on her birthday.  A wolf visits the 3 children dressed as their grandmother, Lon Po Po.  The children become wise to the wolf and trick the wolf into riding high in a basket and falling to his death. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt StoryTown, 2008)

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