Cultural orienteering: a map for Anthony Browne`s into the forest

Abstract

Bullen and Parsons identify Anthony Browne\u27s picture book Into the Forest as a re-gendered retelling of \u27Little Red Riding Hood\u27 that expresses recent assumptions about childhood, risk and the resources children need to survive in today\u27s world. In Browne\u27s version, the forest is the terrain in which a young male protagonist imaginatively explores his anxiety about his father\u27s unexplained absence.<br /