Saturday, December 1, 2012
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
Setting: House
Characters: Mother, Shang, Tao, Paotze, Po Po, Wolf
Theme: Don't answer the door for strangers, Outsmarting
In this story, the mother goes off to visit Po Po (the grandmother), and a nearby wolf sees her leave. He comes to the door pretending to be the children's grandmother. They say that their mother just left to go visit her. Finally Tao and Paotze decide to let the wolf in, and he blows out the candle right away. They all crawled into bed together, but Shang kept feeling weird things like a tail and claws. Shang decided to light a candle, and the wolf blew it out right away but not before Shang saw his face. Shang talked the wolf into having some Ginko nuts because they let you live forever. Shang and the other siblings climbed the tree to pick some of them for the wolf. Shang told the siblings about the wolf, and they made a plan. The children were eating the nuts and told the wolf they only worked right after you ate them so the wolf would need to go up the tree. They had the wolf get in a basket and pulled him up and dropped him three times until he was dead. The children came down from the tree and went inside. They locked the door and slept. When their mother came home, they told her everything that had happened.