Little Red Riding Hood

One of the books that we borrowed was "Little Red Riding Hood". We all probably know the gist of the story. It has been read to us by our parents, teachers, etc...when we were little kids, it's a story about a little girl with a red cape going to her grandmother's house, who meets a big bad wolf on the way....moral of the story - never talk to strangers; and that's mostly what stuck to my mind after all these years. However, as I was reading the story to Sami, I had to improvise some parts of the story as I found them too violent for a four year old. She even told me the next morning that she had a bad dream - not good (T_T). So anyway, I did some reading as to the origin of the fairytale and it goes back years and years before and has already had numerous adaptations. I may have picked up a book that mostly stuck to the original story. Though, this got me to thinking, there really are a lot of children's stories out there that seem to be too mature for kids....I guess, this is where Parent's Discretion come in.