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Adolfo Serra | Adolfo Serra illustrations of Littler Red Ridding Hood are beautifully striking. The emotions and story are remarkably told through Adolfo’s wonderful illustrations full of sensitive brush strokes and alluring compositions. Adolfo Serra is an a talented award winning illustrator based in Teruel, Spain. He studied advertising and public relations but later returned to his childhood passion and studied at the Art School 10 in Madrid.

Little Red Riding Hood is a story that speaks of fear, uncertainty, ingenuity, surprise … I wanted to catch those emotions. On the other hand I am also interested in the idea that it was the reader to interpret the pictures and create their own version of the story. I wanted to somehow recover from the experience of “telling a story.” So the album takes on a new dimension, not exhausted and the story can be read again and again. Everyone knows the story, characters, dialogue … In this case, I felt that the text does not add anything new, but limited. A Narwhal editors liked the idea and opted for the project from the beginning… From Perrault to this day, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has been told a thousand times. There is a key figure in all these versions of the story: fear. He has been instrumental in addressing this adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. I liked the idea of presenting the classic tale as a game of perception, a dance between the three characters … Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf and fear. And keeping in mind that the book is aimed at a broad audience, especially children.

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