Charles Perrault Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales. The best known of his tales include "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood"), "Cendrillon" ("Cinderella"), "Le Chat Botté" ("Puss in Boots"), "La Belle au bois Dormant " ("The Sleeping Beauty") and "Barbe Bleue" ("Bluebeard"). Some of Perrault's versions of old stories have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later.
Little Red Riding Rabbit Wolf" (1934) by Walt Disney, and "Little Red Walking Hood" (1937), "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943), and "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949) by Tex Avery. Friz Freleng had already directed four fairy-tale films: "Beauty and the Beast" (1934), "The Miller's Daughter" (1934), "The Trial of Mister Wolf" (1941), and "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk" (1943). He would go on to direct "Red Riding Hoodwinked" (1955). Little Red Riding Rabbit Little Red Riding Rabbit is a 1944 Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Bugs Bunny. It is a sendup of the Little Red Riding Hood story, and