Readers construct and test their own box trap to help Hansel and Gretel trap the witch. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of box traps.

Hansel and Gretel are lost in the woods, when they discover a house made of gingerbread! but when they start eating, a wicked old witch opens the door...

Readers build their own pulley system to help Rapunzel avoid having her hair pulled. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science behind pulleys.

Readers construct and test their own rafts to help the three billy goats avoid the troll. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science of buoyancy.

Retells, through song, the tale of two abandoned children that come upon a gingerbread cottage inhabited by a cruel witch who wants to eat them. Includes glossary, guided reading activities, and sheet music.

Readers construct and test their own bridges to help the Gingerbread Man escape a fox. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of bridges.

Sometimes the things that seem sweet and innocent are the most dangerous. A cottage made out of candy, for example, might just be a hungry witch’s trap. That is what Hansel and Gretel learn, to their horror, after their cruel stepmother turns them out into the forest to starve. Now they will have to work together and use all their cleverness if they want to defeat the witch and escape with their lives. This retelling of the well-known children’s story comes to life with beautiful illustrations.

The first Grimm tale illustrated by 1998 Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky is once again available in hardcover. Originally published in 1984, Zelinsky's paintings for Hansel and Gretel are as compelling as his later work and will captivate readers with their mysterious beauty, emotional power, and brilliant originality. Each spread brings to life a world as rich and real as our own—detailed, colorful, sensual—yet filled with the unearthly shadowed magic of the Hansel and Gretel folktale. Whether portraying the fear and anguish of children abandoned by their parents, the delicious sumptuousness of a candy house, or the joy of being reunited with one's family, the artist captures the subtle nuances of emotion and the tactile quality of the physical world with exquisite accuracy and elegance.The hauntingly spare retelling of this perennial favorite by the poet Rika Lesser perfectly complements the vivid storytelling of Zelinsky's artwork. Once again this gifted artist gives us a unique interpretation of a beloved fairy tale, allowing us to both see it anew and rediscover its eternal truths.

So what if 12-year-old Jack's great-great-great-great-great aunt has oddly youthful looks? (Probably cosmetic surgery.) Or a hat she never removes? (Fashion victim.) Or goes out into the creepy forest at midnight to play bingo? (Must be what people do in the country.) Who cares about that when her cottage doesn't even have Wi-Fi?! Forced to visit his distant relative with the unusual name of Gretel, Jack is about to find out that fairy tales aren't sparkly, cheesy love stories. They're dark. They have claws. They're a warning. And when you're the unwilling hero of your own fairy tale, you might be the one who's taught a nasty lesson.

With a house made of gingerbread, the witch HAD to be sweet, right? Your readers can judge for themselves when the witch tells them HER side of the classic fairy tale. A delicious way to spark conversations about perspective and support Common Core standards.