Entangled adaptations: Gretel, redesigned

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Holdstock, Sam 2025. Entangled adaptations: Gretel, redesigned. in: Lindahl-Wise, Mette, Oulton, Harry, Macleroy, Vicky and Corbett, Emily (ed.) Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House New York Routledge.
AuthorsHoldstock, Sam
EditorsLindahl-Wise, Mette, Oulton, Harry, Macleroy, Vicky and Corbett, Emily
Abstract

In July 2022, I sat down with seven female secondary school students and a colleague from my department to think about a character named Gretel and to play a writing game that I had created especially: Gretel, Redesigned (Holdstock, 2022). In a classroom on the first floor of CentreTown Academy, the school where I worked as a teacher of English, we sat, we talked, and for a short while, we wrote.

KeywordsFairytales; Hansel and Gretel
Year2025
Book titleReading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House
PublisherRoutledge
Output statusIn press
Place of publicationNew York
Abingdon
SeriesChildren's Literature and Culture
ISBN9781032907260
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PrintOct 2025
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Deposited20 Oct 2025
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003559474
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