Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls Hardcover - 2007

Media reviews

“Rosie, a Little Red Riding Hood type with lace-up Doc Martens instead of scones, narrates this story collection for the smart, strong female who can’t help getting into trouble…Wood’s prose reads as powerful, funny, and real…Rosie may have ‘a difficult relationship with the word eclectic,’ but that’s what this book is. In a good way. Grade: A-“
—Entertainment Weekly

“…pretty irresistible…this is a gorgeous edition, a compact hardcover that begs to be read under a blanket while sipping a steaming drink spiked with something dark and a little dangerous…Wood has a knack for translating everyday moments into bewitching, detailed images that are at once classic and thoroughly contemporary.”
—Bookslut.com

“The book is fun, tightly-packed, and powerful. Women of all ages will love and treasure the stories it tells…Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls is an excellent read.”
—The Feminist Review

“…emotionally pitch-perfect…[The stories] are funny and moving, and original enough to cover long-trampled territory like virginity and domestic abuse and seem new…get it and you’ll have the smartest book at the beach.”
—Santa Cruz Sentinel

“Wood’s collection of linked short stories makes a delightful trek through the life of bad girl Rosie Little…A clever and wickedly amusing character…Wood’s writing is succinct, elegant, witty, and wonderfully suited to the form. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal STARRED review

"…quirky and playful, sort of a girl-power Lemony Snicket collection, albeit with significantly less comic miserablism…a modern collection for the kind of girls who wish chick-lit protagonists were generally cleverer, had more diverse interests, and could discourse on ‘nominative determinism’ with a (relatively) straight face.”
—The Onion’s A.V. Club

“Rosie Little is sassy, feisty, and simultaneously, beguilingly naïve.”
—West Australian

“Wood’s stories have the appeal of the ordinary — the pains and pleasures that all modern girls and women will recognize…And she has a talent for descriptions so accurate that we are by her side in an instant, laughing in recognition of exactly what she means. She is wry and funny and unpretentious — we trust her voice implicitly.”
—Sydney Morning Herald