What is it?
Hansel and Gretel
Who wrote it?
James Finn Garner
Where can it be
found?
in: Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More politically
Correct Bedtime Stories
Adaptation?
Another of the ‘PC’ kind.
My thoughts in
exactly 10 words:
Not a ‘witch’ but ‘Wiccan’ and defender of Mother Earth.
Extended thoughts:
This is a very different take on this story that ended up
focusing on the issue of the father’s “wood butchering” more than anything
else. Honestly, I didn’t laugh as much as I did in some of the others, but
there were some giggles. It was interesting to see the father as the bad guy
all the way through and then how his “biological but not spiritual” pre-adults
are able to overcome their oppressors.
Favourite Quote:
“Then, around a sharp bend in their path, they came upon a
wondrous cottage made of carob brownies, sugarless gingerbread, and carrot
cake. Even without a reassuring FDA label, the cottage looked so good that the
children dived at it and began to devour it.”
Moral of the story in
my own words:
Don’t
leave your children in the forest, then become rich and powerful and want to
pulp that same forest.
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