as the traditional tale, but with continual comments from the narrator about how appalling Goldilocks is and how anyone with any sense would take the bears' side over hers (with the narrator telling the story as if talking to the Mother Bear). After the end, the narrator says that they would prefer an ending where the three bears come back and eat Goldilocks. In Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, based on Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf enters the grandmother's house and devours her before putting on her clothes to eat Little Red Riding Hood next. Riding Hood is not disturbed however, and calmly pulls a pistol out of her underwear and shoots the wolf ("The small girl smiles/Her eyelid flickers/She whips a pistol from her knickers/She aims it at the creature's head and BANG! BANG! BANG! she shoots him ... dead.") – yielding her a new wolfskin coat. In The Three Little Pigs, the wolf quickly blows down the houses of straw and sticks, devouring the first two pigs. The third house of bricks is too strong, so the wolf resolves to come back that evening with dynamite. The third pig has other plans, however, and asks Little Red Riding Hood to come and deal with the wolf. Ever the sharpshooter, Red Riding Hood gains a second wolfskin coat and a pigskin travelling case. Audio book An audio book of Dahl's Revolting Rhymes was released, read by Timothy West and Prunella Scales; this version was also turned into an OVA by Abbey Home Entertainment in 1990 as part of their Tempo Video range. A later version was narrated by Scottish actor Alan Cumming. The current audiobook is narrated by Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig and Miriam Margolyes and has available at least since 2014. Animated adaptations The book, as explained above, was adapted into an OVA that was done in the style of Quentin Blake's illustrations. The book was later adapted into a two-part CGI special for BBC One, first shown on 26 and 27 December 2016. It was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short. References Children's books by Roald Dahl Children's poetry books Poetry by Roald Dahl 1982 children's books 1982 poetry books Collections of fairy tales British poetry collections Literature based on fairy tales Jonathan Cape books Works based on Little Red Riding Hood Works based on The Three Little Pigs Works