Lyra and Little Red Riding Hood

I was googling His Dark Materials and found an interesting site (http://www.darkmaterials.com/golinter01.htm) comparing Little Red Riding Hood with Lyra. Though Little Red Riding Hood is a simple fairy tale and His Dark Materials is a complex novel, the similarities are quit obvious. Both stories deal with a young adolescent female confronting the desire for independence, both deal with sexuality, and both deal with the young female being stripped of her innocence. Both characters stray from the safe path. Lyra refused to listen to the people trying to keep her from harms way like L.R.R.H refused to listen to her mother. Both character have "idealized familial figures who turn out to be vicious predators." "Both have corresponding antagonists who destroy the heroine while in the role of her benefactor and protector." Both girls are betrayed by someone they trusted: L.R.R.H. by the wolf and Lyra by both of her parents. Innocence and maturity are the themes in both of these stories. I thought this was an interesting comparison even worthy of a term paper topic.