This book was about a family that needed to get rid of their children to eat because they were in need of more food. The parent shad an attempt to push they kids to the forrest, the kids found a house made of sugar and the kids ate and felt comfortable and the witch made an attempt to eat the kids. ( )

Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora gives readers a stunning new interpretation of this classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, setting the infamous witch's cottage deep in a lush African forest. Hansel and Gretel's plight feels all the more threatening as they're plunged into the thick, dark jungle of Isadora's rich collages.

In African setting, Hansel and Gretel are two innocent children that must come up with a plot to survive their parents’ plot to leave them in the forest, then outsmart the old woman who captures them.

The traditional story of Hansel and Gretel is told in this book with a different setting. This book is the African version of the folktale. The story is about two young siblings who have an evil stepmother, who abandons them. The siblings, Hansel and Gretel, go on an adventure to get back to their father. The central theme of this story is about and making it through hard times with the ones you love and the importance of family. ( )

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