Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their wicked stepmother, so lost, hungry and exhausted, they come across a strange house made of sweets, but they soon find out the owner is a wicked witch with a taste for children.
Presents a retelling, in simple text with illustrations, of the classic tale in which a strange man spins straw into gold, asks a huge reward and offers a seemingly impossible way out of the deal.
Left in the woods by their parents, Hansel and Gretel manage to find their way home in spite of an encounter with a wicked witch. Presented in English and Swahili.
An illustrated retelling of the story written in both English and Vietnamese about a Pied Piper who is hired to free a village of rats, but when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service, he lures away their children as well.
Four old animals, on the run from owners who plan to kill them, experience a change of fortunewhile on their way to become street musicians in Bremen. Presented in English and Somali.
Examines Adolf Hitler's rise to power in post-World War I Germany and follows the course of his leadership through the fall of the Third Reich, likening his reign to the folk tale of "Reynard the Fox" as told by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
