[en] In the 1970’s, Chico Buarque published the children's book Chapeuzinho Amarelo
– a parody of the fairy tale The Little Red Riding Hood. This analysis tries to emphasize the
intertextual structures underlying the two stories, showing in what ways elements of the
narrative, themes and figures are borrowed from the classical text. In the traditional version of
the brothers Grimm, the central theme is that of transgression, but in the background we
can also see the theme of maturation. This secondary theme is brought to the center in
Chapeuzinho Amarelo. Linguistic, sound and visual resources of the expression plane will
bring a symbolic aspect to the confrontation between Chapeuzinho Amarelo and the Wolf. To
close the analysis, we investigate the pictures that compose the book. These pictures bring
contributions to the meanings conveyed by the written text and reinforce the general
interpretation given in this work.
