Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak have collaborated on a new edition of 'Hansel and Gretel'. The book features King's retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, accompanied by Sendak's illustrations originally created for a 1997 opera production.
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HarperCollins Publishers announced Thursday that the King-Sendak re-imagining of the famed Brothers Grimm tale about two lost children in a frightening forest is scheduled for Sept. 2. King’s words will be complemented by sketches Sendak drew up for set and costume designs for a 1997 production of the Humperdinck opera adaptation.
“Two of his pictures in particular spoke to me: One was of the wicked witch on her broom with a bag of kidnapped children riding behind her; the other was of the infamous candy house becoming a terrible face. I thought, ‘This is what the house really looks like, a devil sick with sin, and it only shows that face when the kids turn their backs. I wanted to write that!’” King said in a statement issued through HarperCollins.
Lynn Caponera, the Sendak foundation’s executive director, said in a statement that she thought King ideal because outside of the Grimms, “he’s the master of scary stories and a wonderful writer to boot.”
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