The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

This five foot gingerbread house was located in a hotel in Abu Dhabi and no children were near. There were a great many Christmas and winter displays in the United Arab Emirates, the western influence.

The book this week is "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel" by Louise Murphy. The story is set in a Poland forest during the last year of World War II. The work is fiction, but the author did her home work and all the essential ingredients of the familiar children's tale are included, leaving a trail, the house in the woods, Magda, the oven, the skinny children. The story tells how an entire population went up in smoke. The story engages you to the very last page, eat it up!

Two down fifty to go, keep reading. Next week, Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult.