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1 day ago · Bettelheim believed that by engaging with stories like Hansel and Gretel, kids could confront their own fears. Here’s what he says on page 166 of his book, “A witch as created by the child’s anxious fantasies will haunt him, but a witch he can push in into her own oven and burn to death is a witch the child can believe himself rid of.
5 days ago · NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Adam Ehrlich Sachs about his new novel "Gretel and the Great War." The book follows a young girl in Vienna at the end of World War I.
5 days ago · And the ABC structure sort of came from my own - you know, I had a 1 1/2-year-old daughter when I started this book, and I was thinking about her and reading a lot of ABC books, many of which I liked more actually than supposedly grown-up novels I was reading. So somehow, those two merged in my head.
1 day ago · Gamba also co-wrote the book with Phillips. The musical, which originally premiered with great success in January 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, immerses the audience in an unprecedented theatrical adventure that combines puppetry, elaborate costumes, and projections in an innovative and large-scale staging.
3 days ago · At the end of the 200-year-old Grimm fairy tale, Gretel traps the cannibalistic witch in her own oven, allowing her to escape with her brother Hansel and the witch's priceless stones. The kids return home rich and live happily ever after.
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3 days ago · I wrote a bunch of haiku for the Golden Haiku contest, and sent two almost at random. Here are the final ones: birds pick up crumbs Hansel is lost Gretel reads the sky. you cannot know the way until you close your eyes. fear ripples the ground. i sink weak kneed. do you know. how you go stop look and listen. dusk frost the sidewalk glistens i ...
5 days ago · In this book he will find himself and what he stands for. “It’s important to be positive. Nothing can be done without hope. This book is a tribute to the human spirit.” With almost 40 books under his belt he moves on to the story of the Albert Foundry a subject far flung from The Troubles and the many theatres of war he has written about.
