Hansal & Gretel

USBORNE YOUNG READING
Hansel & Gretel
Retold by Katie Daynes
Illustrated by Jan McCadderty

This family is so poor that they can't eat much more. Hansel and Gretel finished the last crumbs on their plates and went to their room. Their mother always think that "Oh, why did I marry a poor woodcutter?"
At night, he was thinking of melted chocolate and teasted marshmallows, "I am so hungry I can't sleep well." Their mother tells father, "there is just not enough food for the four of us. The children will have to go. Do you have a better idea?" dather cried. He fells silent. "Tomorrow, we'll take our children deep into the forest and leave them there !" You never know - someone may find them and take them home. This conversation was heard them and "what are we going to do ?" "don't worry. I have a good idea." said Hansel. He collected as many as he could and stuffed then his pockets in the moonlight.
Next morning, "we're going on a lovely walk today." He drops pobbles one by one on the street. In the deep forest, "you two sit here while we cut some wood while she'll make you a fire." Their father was so worried about them. They warmed their hands by the fire until next morning. Gretel doesn't know way to home but his pobble trail led them through the shadowy forest and all the way home soon. Their mother dislike them so they went home that was so surprised. But they took them in the deeply forest tomorrow again. They found a pretty chocolate's house. They worked hard under noisy woman. But they stay a happy life.
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