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Vintage Children's Classics (2020), Edition: 01, 32 pages
Description
"Greta lives with her brother, Hansel, on the edge of a great forest, a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping, and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids, deep in the woods."--Back cover.
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LibraryThing member Beamis12
When I saw that Winter son wrote a children's book, I just had to see how this would turn out. An old fairy tale taken place in modern times. Yes, there is a woodcutter with two motherless children, but he is a wood cutter with an environmental conscience. This consciousness would have many
There is a young tree that can walk and a witch who travels by vacuum cleaner as brooms are an outmoded source of travel. The story takes many twists and turns not seen in the original. Putting my self in a much younger frame of mind, not always easy, but I do think a seven or eight year old would find this entertaining. Very different but also unique and imaginative.
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consequences. There is no wicked stepmother but a supposed aunt called Greedyguts, who eats everything in sight. Very prodigious appetite. She is wicked though and it is she who sends the children to the forest. There is a young tree that can walk and a witch who travels by vacuum cleaner as brooms are an outmoded source of travel. The story takes many twists and turns not seen in the original. Putting my self in a much younger frame of mind, not always easy, but I do think a seven or eight year old would find this entertaining. Very different but also unique and imaginative.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
10.39 inches
ISBN
178487633X / 9781784876333
Local notes
Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction.GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians.GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favours luxury and living it up- eating, shopping and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids...deep in the wood.