Saving the Gingerbread House: A Science Folktale

by Lois Wickstrom, Ada Konewki (Illustrator)

Overview

Is the Witch really going to enter the House Beautiful Contest?

For that matter, is there really a witch? Something is tapping in the woods. Hansel and Gretel investigate. It's not a witch building a beautiful home. It's a woodpecker. They were in such a hurry to find the source of the sound, now they are lost. They come upon a beautiful home. It's made of gingerbread. Animals are nibbling. Hansel and Gretel, eat some, too. Then the owner comes out.

Have the hungry children ruined her chance to win that contest? What will she do?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954519534
Publisher:	Look Under Rocks
Publication date:	03/01/2023
Series:	Science Folktales , #7
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	34
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

5 stars

Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite

Do you like gingerbread? I do. Especially with icing and all kinds of sweet treats on top. How about an entire house made of gingerbread? Sounds good. Somehow I don't think it would last long; you can't really have a house and eat it too, now can you? That was the Witch's problem. Her beautiful Gingerbread House was the talk of the community and everyone believed she would win the House Beautiful Contest - that's if she could keep her Gingerbread House in one piece long enough for the judges to see it. Hansel and Gretel, lost in the woods, happen upon the Gingerbread House and, hungry from wandering, they join the menagerie of animals consuming the sweet treats.

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