[A] jewel box of a book. --Kirkus
Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a
forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't
appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the
forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians.
GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and
living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a
plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With
her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the
classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.