This is Sybille Schenker's first highly graphic fairy tale book from 2011. The words have been slightly abridged from the original Brothers Grimm story to fit into the graphic format of the book. The forty-eight pages are a mixture of colored paper and slightly thick tracing paper. Schenker cleverly uses this to allow her illustrations to show through one or two pages.
Oddly, the story says the witch's cottage is made of bread with cakes for the roof but the colored illustration doesn't give any suggestion of food but rather colored pieces of wallpaper. I thought the illustrations of the forest worked particularly well printed with black ink on the light grey of the tracing paper.
Schenker has now produced three books of fairy tales, each with a laser-cut title on the cover (protected with a clear plastic jacket) and different printing and laser-cut treatments for the inside pages. This graphic treatment for a story makes a refreshing change from the usual (and predictable) fairy tale books for children.
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