Gretel on Her Own
Gretel on Her Own

Author: Elna Holst

Publisher: NineStar Press

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1648902650

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Once upon a time, a brother and sister were led away into the depths of the forest. It was only to protect them, their mother explained and the brother concurred; yet he insisted on pebbles, bread crumbs. He insisted on looking back for cats and pigeons and whatnots, brightened by the touch of the sun. Twenty years later, Gretel Kindermann is on her own: her father has taken himself off to Dortmund, her mother is a fixture at the local mental healthcare institution, and her brother Hänsel, oh— At the heart of the matter, like a thorny-rooted weed, is Frau Heckscher, the purveyor of all things sweet in the little village at the lip of the forest. And now, perhaps, also a niece that no one has heard of before, lately arrived from Vienna to wreak havoc on poor Gretel’s nerves and heart. In Gretel on Her Own, Elna Holst offers a contemporary sapphic twist to your favourite Germanic fairy tale of homicidal arsonists and houses built out of baked goods, trickster witches, and parenting skills that leave a lot to be desired.

It's Not Hansel and Gretel
It's Not Hansel and Gretel

Author: Josh Funk

Publisher: Two Lions

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503902947

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With laugh-out-loud dialogue and bold, playful art (including hidden search-and-find fairy-tale creatures), this retelling of the classic fairy tale will have kids giggling right up to the delicious ending! Full color.

A Tale Dark & Grimm
A Tale Dark & Grimm

Author: Adam Gidwitz

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1101445289

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In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.

Unsolaced
Unsolaced

Author: Gretel Ehrlich

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0307911799

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From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird, and horse have shaped her life and her understanding of a world besieged by a climate crisis. Amid species extinctions and disintegrating ice sheets, this stunning collection of memories, observations, and narratives is acute and lyrical, Whitmanesque in breadth, and as elegant as a Japanese teahouse. “Sentience and sunderance,” Ehrlich writes. “How we know what we know, who teaches us, how easy it is to lose it all.” As if to stave off impending loss, she embarks on strenuous adventures to Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, and an uninhabited Alaskan island, always returning to her simple Wyoming cabin at the foot of the mountains and the trail that leads into the heart of them.

Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel

Author: Rachel Isadora

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 039925028X

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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.

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Author: Louise Murphy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-07-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1101495626

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A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and Lilac Girls In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.” They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called a “witch” by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children. Louise Murphy’s haunting novel of journey and survival, of redemption and memory, powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children.

Spoonfuls of Germany
Spoonfuls of Germany

Author: Nadia Hassani

Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780781810579

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This book goes beyond the sauerkraut and knackwurst stereotype to unveil the often overlooked diversity of German cuisine. 170 regional recipes range from classic dishes, such as spaetzle with cheese and sauerbraten to forgotten delicacies like Westfalian pumpernickel pudding. Numerous profiles, anecdotes, and food lore complete the book.

The Solace of Open Spaces
The Solace of Open Spaces

Author: Gretel Ehrlich

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1504042883

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These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Gretel and the Dark
Gretel and the Dark

Author: Eliza Granville

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1594632553

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Decades after a celebrated Viennese psychoanalyst begins working with a woman who claims to be a machine, a young girl retreats into fairy tales, unaware of the dangers in her Nazi-controlled German city.

The Diary of Hansel and Gretel
The Diary of Hansel and Gretel

Author: Kees Moerbeek

Publisher: Little Simon

Published: 2002-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780689846021

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The real story of what happened to Hansel and Gretel in the forest is told inthis "diary" written by Gretel that features flaps to lift, tabs to pull, andzany pop-ups. Full-color illustrations.