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Hansel and Gretel
- Narrator
- Stephen King
- Publisher
- Hachette Children's Group
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2025
- Run Time
- 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Let Stephen King, global bestselling and award-winning author, and Maurice Sendak, beloved creator of the Caldecott-Medal winning Where the Wild Things Are, guide you into this most deliciously daring rendition of the traditional Grimm fairy tale. But will you find your way back out?
Critics Review
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Masters of their craft
The Observer
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A modern classic - superb
Daily Mail
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Gorgeous, Blakean images
The Observer
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Don't get gobbled up. That primal warning is the central thread that glitters darkly through many of the best children's stories... [A] new version of Hansel and Gretel...by Stephen King no less...Yes, please.
The Times
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Sendak loved the poet and artist William Blake...and his hero's influence illuminates every page of this gorgeous hardback
The Times
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King's punch-like prose and Sendak's haunting drawings make for an immensely absorbing book: Hansel's nightmarish visions brilliantly project the readers' anxieties. And, as with Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak's drawings tease with their beauty as much as with their menace.
The Telegraph
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[A}fascinating curio for the horror fan who has small kids
The FT
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[A] joy from start to end
The Sun
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If your young reader likes fairy tales with a gleefully Gothic edge, this is the book for them
The Irish Times
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[T]his glorious picture book features King's reimagining of the late illustrator Sendak's beautiful opera set and costume designs for the Humperdinck opera based on Hansel and Gretel. The result is a thrilling book brimming with the menace
Lancashire Evening Post
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A story filled with both darkness and light, traditional and modern storytelling, illustrations that will carry you into the dark wood
Armadillo Children’s Books
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A cracker
The Spectator
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Details
- Author
- Stephen King, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
- Narrator
- Stephen King
- Duration
- 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781444985252
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Children's Group
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories: Cultural heritage / traditional stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Synopsis
The classic, haunting tale of two brave children lost in an eerie and dangerous forest, reimagined by literary legends: Stephen King and Maurice Sendak.Let Stephen King, global bestselling and award-winning author, and Maurice Sendak, beloved creator of the Caldecott-Medal winning Where the Wild Things Are, guide you into this most deliciously daring rendition of the traditional Grimm fairy tale. But will you find your way back out?
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