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Hansel and Greta

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202032 pagesHaymarket Books

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In this retelling of the classic fairy tale, siblings Hansel and Greta are abandoned in a dark, forbidding forest. Their hunger leads them to a wondrous house made of gingerbread and candy, which seems too good to be true. The woman who lives inside offers them shelter, but the children soon discover her kindness hides a monstrous secret.

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Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society o...

Laura Barrett is an author and illustrator known for her detailed silhouette art and fairy tale retellings. She created the visual style for Hansel and Greta, using bold cut-out

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