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In the last century, the image of the city in children’s literature has become an integral and dynamic element that offers many insights on many levels. We propose a brief reflection and a small range of dedicated publications that have renewed literature by exploiting the urban environment to address different and new themes without necessarily disowning the classics. Authors such as Roberto Innocenti and Bruno Munari, for example, have placed the figure of Little Red Riding Hood in an urban context, contributing to shaping the child’s imagination and the conception they have of the city, which is represented, sometimes, as a source of wonders, sometimes as a great metropolis even more dangerous, perhaps, than the Grimm brothers’ wood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]