Hensel and Gretel: Ninja Chicks
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A clever twist on Hansel and Gretel that proves ninja chicks are anything but chicken! Illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Dan Santat.
When Hensel and Gretel’s dad gets snatched by a fox, the sisters put their ninja skills to work to track him down before he can be stir-fried.
But are these two little chicks ready to take on a dark tangled forest, a tricky house made of corn bread, and an even trickier fox?
This plucky pair isn’t giving up without a fight! Kiya!
Kids will fight over this new offering from the team behind The Three Ninja Pigs and Ninja Red Riding Hood.
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Gomez (What About Moose?) joins the team behind The Three Ninja Pigs and Ninja Red Riding Hood for a fractured fairy tale that delivers more satisfying martial arts mayhem. There's a moment of reflection as chickens Hensel and Gretel stand before the 3 Pigs Dojo ("Get empowered, not devoured"), but from then on it's all action as they find their parents have been chicken-napped, bushwhack through the forest, and arrive at a fox's cottage, made from cornbread. Inside, they find their parents and realize their peril: " Watch out!' Papa cried./ You'll be chicken-pot-pied!' " Feathers fly and teeth are bared as the chickens square off against the fox, hurling kitchenware and delivering blows until their parents are freed: "You two Ninja Chicks/ got us out of that fix,/ and justice not dinner was served." Santat serves up an unstoppable barrage of exaggerated angles, action lines, and pop-eyed facial expressions to accompany Schwartz and Gomez's sturdy limerick-metered verse. It's almost possible to hear the clang as the wok clocks the fox. Ages 4 8. Authors'
