false <![CDATA[The True Story of Hansel and Gretel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172783477m/216408.jpg 216408 4 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 "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. Combining classic themes of fairy tales and war literature, this haunting novel of journey and survival, of redemption and memory, powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children, and tells a resonant, riveting story. 2460920 29 7 2003 The True Story of Hansel and Gretel total:977|5:347|4:412|3:162|2:40|1:16| 977 3965 1786 275 5 5 false false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 14 12:25:39 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 12 15:51:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false true Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 19 22:01:02 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 22:01:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 23:18:18 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 19:39:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Oct 05 18:24:20 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 06:56:45 -0700 2009 Briar Rose pre dates this.
Murphy's tale has all the power of Yolen's novel.

Murphy does not deal totally with ce...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 11:45:29 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 20:51:17 -0700 2008
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In the beginning, I found it difficult to like the father and step-mother. I understood their reasoning, leaving the children on the edge of the forest when...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 19:18:59 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 19:59:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 17:03:42 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 17:08:33 -0700 2009 1
This was a fabulous book, and I highly recommend it. The a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Aug 05 15:05:44 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:41:39 -0700 2009 This is a book of a lifetime, a book that affects your life, a book that, after immersing you in its world so that you believe you live there, stays with you until the end of time. No other book has ever illustrated, so eloquently and powerfully, the horrors of the Holocaust. This book is requ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 00:13:48 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 16:37:21 -0800 2008 the idea of casting hansel and gretel as jewish children during ww2 felt right, felt really compelling and interesting.

but this book is so unbearably ill-conceived, not well written, and parts are offensive in their willful ignorance and untruthfu...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 22 13:45:27 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 13:46:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Mar 04 22:05:06 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 22:08:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 28 09:12:20 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 22:57:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 26 21:52:33 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 15:28:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=216408