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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Morpurgo, Michael, Reteller

Hansel and Gretel

64 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4012-5 $18.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark. Morpurgo's darkly psychological (and wordy) text includes an entire front story; the stepmother-witch turns the children's mother into a willow tree and entrances the father, thereby setting the scene for the more familiar part of the tale. Watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations, which extend the text even further, effectively contrast light-filled scenes of home with those that show the dark, menacing, beckoning woods.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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