Genre: Traditional Literature
Author: James Marshall
Awards: N/A
Age Group: 6 to 9-year-olds
Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think Hansel and Gretel could be used in the classroom. Hansel and Gretel is a classic story. The story allows children to be exposed to stories with both ups and downs which can relate to real life situations although it is fiction. I think this book would best fit the first-grade classroom. This book could be used to review comprehension and response skills by asking students about the events of the books.
Summary: This book begins by telling you about Hansel and Gretel's family. Their family consists of their mother and their father who's a woodcutter. Although the family already had very little to live off of, there was now a famine. The mother wanted to get rid of the children, so she convinced the father to lead the children out to the woods the next day and leave them. Hansel and Gretel overheard the mother's plan so Hansel gathered pebbles that night. Hansel used the pebbles the next day to leave a trail back to the house that Gretel and he would use to get back home. The children make it back home only for the mother to come up with the same plan but lock the doors so Hansel cannot collect pebbles. Hansel uses his bread his mother gave him to leave a trail instead but birds eat the crumbs. Hansel and Gretel wander the forest when they stumble upon a house made out of sweets. They eat some of the sweets when the lady that lives in the house comes out and invites them in. The lady turns out to be a witch who wants to fatten them up and eat them. So when she asks Gretel to check on the oven, Gretel says she doesn't know how. When the with is in the oven showing Gretel how to check Gretel shoves her in and the two siblings get away with the witches riches and return home to their father.
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