Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Charles Robinson (A classic fairy tale with a bit of twist) This story was published in The Big Book of Fairy Tales, edited by Walter Jerrold. The publisher was Blackie & Son in 1911. Hansel and Gretel live with their father and stepmother. Father is a poor woodcutter. They are all hungry. Stepmother gets the idea to take the kids into the woods and leave them there so there would be two hungry mouths at the house. Father doesn't like the idea but she persists. Hansel tells this to his sister. He has a plan. He sneaks out of the house and fills his pockets with white pebbles so he can drop them on their way to the forest, and the kids can later find their way home. The plan works. Hansel and Gretel are left in the woods but return home following the trace of the pebbles. Unfortunately, their stepmother insists on taking them to the forest again. This time, the door is locked, so Hansel can't take the pebbles. He tries to mark the way with