Fairy tale · VoiceSmiths adaptation · 3:58
Hansel and Gretel
Lost in the woods, Hansel and Gretel find a house made of cake and sugar, and a witch who wants them for dinner. A gentle retelling of the Grimm tale.
Narrator
Hansel
Gretel
Father
Stepmother
The Witch
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このストーリーについて
Hansel and Gretel is a German folk tale published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812, in the first volume of their Children's and Household Tales. This bedtime version keeps the pebbles, the breadcrumbs, the sugar house and the chicken-bone trick, but softens the ending: Gretel locks the witch in her cold oven instead of burning her, and the stepmother moves to town instead of dying.
お話の教え
Hansel and Gretel stick together and keep their heads when things go wrong. Clever thinking can get you out of a scary place, and something that looks too sweet to be true often is.
対象
Ages 4–8
読み聞かせのコツ
- Chant the witch's nibble-nibble rhyme together, and let your child answer with the wind's reply.
- Pause after Gretel asks the witch to show her, and ask what she's planning.
- If the forest feels scary, tell your child early on that the children get home safe.
よくある質問
- What is the moral of Hansel and Gretel?
- Stay together, stay calm and use your wits. It also warns that something that looks too good to be true, like a house made of sweets, may be a trap.
- Who wrote Hansel and Gretel?
- It is a German folk tale collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. In their first edition the children's own mother sends them away; later editions made her a stepmother.
- Was the witch's house really made of gingerbread?
- In the Grimms' text the house is built of bread, with a cake roof and windows of clear sugar. The gingerbread house became the standard picture later, helped along by Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera Hansel and Gretel.
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