Ages 4-7. Every night Herb's mother reads him a bedtime story, which often features hairy, ugly wolves. Each night, Herb tells his mother to take the book with her, "because there's a wolf inside." Sure enough, on the one night Mom forgets, two smelly wolves appear in his bedroom (one is dressed in a suit and tie; a younger one, with a patch over his eye, is dressed in knee pants). The wolves are ready to eat the boy until he tricks them into thinking little boys are only for dessert. Then what's the appetizer? So begins a wacky trip through several stories where a fairy godmother puts the young wolf into Cinderella's dress and turns the other one into a caterpillar--that's good for Red Riding Hood, who meets a caterpillar in the forest instead of a wolf. The artwork is frantic--strips of color serve as background for exuberant pen-and-watercolor pictures reminiscent of Quentin Blake's art, only kicked up one dizzy notch. This goofy tale is fractured in all the right places.