AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Brothers Grimm/Adrienne Adams
PUBLISHER: Charlse Scribner’s Sons PUBLICATION DATE: 1975
GENRE: Traditional Euro Fiction READING LEVEL: Ages 9+
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Two little children whose father abandon them in a forest and they find their way to a candy house where a witch tries to eat them but they escape.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will think on what they would have done if they were in Hansel and Gretel’s positions and write their own version of the story starring themselves.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Elizabeth Pearce, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: Fiction, Witches, Fairy Tale
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