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Chargement... Hansel and Greta: A Fairy Tale Revolution (édition 2020)par Jeanette Winterson (Auteur), Laura Barrett (Illustrateur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHansel and Greta: A Fairy Tale Revolution par Jeanette Winterson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. When I saw that Winter son wrote a children's book, I just had to see how this would turn out. An old fairy tale taken place in modern times. Yes, there is a woodcutter with two motherless children, but he is a wood cutter with an environmental conscience. This consciousness would have many consequences. There is no wicked stepmother but a supposed aunt called Greedyguts, who eats everything in sight. Very prodigious appetite. She is wicked though and it is she who sends the children to the forest. There is a young tree that can walk and a witch who travels by vacuum cleaner as brooms are an outmoded source of travel. The story takes many twists and turns not seen in the original. Putting my self in a much younger frame of mind, not always easy, but I do think a seven or eight year old would find this entertaining. Very different but also unique and imaginative. ARC from Edelweiss. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Greta lives with her brother, Hansel, on the edge of a great forest, a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping, and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids, deep in the woods."--Back cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In this retelling, H&G's woodcutter father is a reluctant logger who sees the light, quits, and then his sister-in-law GreedyGuts (the kids' aunt, actually an ogre) is enraged. The kids manage to reunite a sapling with its witch, who does live in a gingerbread house, but in a city. Trees good, consumerism bad! A definite Greta Thunberg flavor of tale, and much better than I'm making it sound here. ( )