![]() ![]() Gaiman wrote much more in The Guardian about what he saw on the trip. “Talking to some of the Syrian refugees who ran out of food, telling me about getting permission from their imam to eat cats and dogs because all the other animals had gone - about eating grass, drinking swamp water - I thought, ‘This is Hansel & Gretel now.’” “In the early Grimms versions, there was famine in the land,” Gaiman told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour last month. (Watch: Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive.) ![]() This decision was inspired after visits to two refugee camps in Jordan where Syrian refugees are building their lives as their country continues to fall apart. The setting here is no fairy tale - Gaiman sets his retelling of the story in a war zone. But his latest work might sound familiar: it’s an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm breadcrumb dropper, Hansel & Gretel.Ī collaboration between author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti for Toon Books, Hansel & Gretel is a swirl of inky lines with our hero and heroine always at a distance, as lost in the chaos of the images as they are in the forest. Neil Gaiman writes stunningly original stories that can make the skin crawl and the teeth chatter. ![]()
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