Hansel and Gretel rewrite--guest post by Anouk Berends

I wanted to share this story that Anouk Berends made.  She took my story of Hansel and Gretel  http://meggiev777.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-retelling-of-hansel-and-gretel.html  and made it her own.  That's what my hope has been with this blog--that you use my stories and redesign them so they fit your needs!

Here's Anouk's story:

This is the story from Hansel and Gretel: I named them, Carlota y Pedro Había dos hermanos que se llamaban Carlota y Pedro. Sus padres no tenían dinero. Eran muy pobres. Un día, el padre les dijo: “Vamos al bosque.” Los tres fueron al bosque y después de una hora Carlota y Pedro querían comer. Le dijeron: “Papá, tenemos hambre y tenemos frio. Por favor, ¿puedes hacer un fuego? Queremos comer."

There were a brother and sister named CArlota and Pedro. Their parents had no money. They were very ppoor. One day, the father told them, "Let's go to the forest," The three went to the forest and after an hour, Carlota and Pedro wanted to eat. They told him, "Dad, we're hungry and cold. Please, can you make a fire? We want to eat."

El padre les dijo: “Mira, tengo pan, pero no tengo leña. Mientras estoy buscando leñas, podéis comer un poco de pan. Luego, cuando yo vuelva, quiero comer un poco de pan también. Entonces no coméis todo.”

The father told them, "Look, I have bread, but I don't have firewood. While I'm looking for firewood, you can eat a little of the bread. Then, when I come back, I want to eat a little of the bread, too. Then you won't eat it all.

“Está bien papá, no vamos a comer todo.”

"Okay, Dad, we won't eat it all."

Pero dos horas más tarde el padre todavía no había llegado. Los dos hermanos tenían sueño y querían volver a casa y fueron a buscar a su padre. Pedro dijo: “¿Dónde está papá? No me gusta esta situación.” “Ni yo tampoco. ¡Mira!”, gritó Carlota, “Allí. Hay una casa”. “¿Has visto aquella casa alguna vez?”, dijo Pedro. Los dos hermanos habían ido al bosque muchísimas veces y nunca habían visto aquella casa.

But two hours later, the dad still had not arrived. The brother and sister were sleepy and wanted to return home, and they went to look for their father.

Peter said, "Where's Dad? I don't like this situations."

"Me either. Look!" shouted Carlota. "Over there. There is a house."

"Have you seen that house before?" asked Pedro. They siblings had gone to the forest many times and had never seen that house.

Era una casa especial. La casa era de ¡puro chocolate! “No quiero volver a casa”, dijo Carlota. “Ni yo tampoco”, dijo Pedro. Pedro y Carlota estaban comiendo un poco de chocolate cuando, de repente, vieron algo. Una persona estaba hablando por teléfono. Pedro y Carlota tenían curiosidad. ¿Quién estaba hablando por teléfono? ¡Era una bruja! Y la bruja no estaba hablando por teléfono, estaba hablando por el móvil muy pequeño. ¡Un móvil pequeñísimo de chocolate!

It was a special house. The house was pure chocolate!

"I don't want to go home," said Carlota.

"Me either," said Pedro.

Pedro and Carlota were eating a little of the chocolate when suddenly they saw something. A person was talking on the phone. Pedro and Carlota were curious. Who was talking on the phone? It was a witch! And the witch wasn't talking on the phone, she was talking on a very small cell phone--a really tiny cell phone made of chocolate!

Pedro y Carlota nunca habían visto un móvil de chocolate y tampoco habían visto un móvil tan pequeño. La bruja vio a los dos y los agarró. Pedro y Carlota le dijeron: “Por favor, señora bruja ¡Ayúdanos! Estamos buscando a nuestro padre. No sabemos dónde está. Teníamos hambre y por eso nos comimos todo el chocolate. No queremos entrar en tu casa. Tenemos miedo.”

Pedro and Carlota had never seen a chocolate cell phone, and they had never seen such a small cell phone. The witch saw them and grabbed them. Pedro and Carlota said to her, "Please, Mrs. Witch, help us! We are looking for our father. We don't know where he is. We were hungry and so we ate all the chocolate. We don't want to go in your house. We're afraid.

La bruja dijo: “Abracadabra, los niños van a volver, a su casa para comer!” Pedro y Carlota volvieron a casa. Y su padre, ¿dónde estaba? ¿Estaría en casa?

The witch said, "Abracadabra, the children are going to retreat to their house so they can eat!"

Pedro and Carlota returned home.

And their father, where was he? Was he at home?