Hansel and Gretel

By Rika Lesser

Subjects: Fairy tales, Candy, 3.7., Dwellings, Fear, Parents, Stoves, Germany, Bread, collectionID:caldecotthonor80, Fiction, Children's fiction, Cruelty, Courage, Accelerated Reader, Hunger, Forests and forestry, Witches, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Caldecott Honor Book 1985, Folklore, award:Caldecott_award, Abandoned children

Description: A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.