

Human: My wife is worried the Hansel and Gretal story is too scary for our 3-year-old.

Assistant: The story of Hansel and Gretel?  Hmm, well, it is a scary story.  The main plot is that the story’s two protagonists are left by their parents to fend for themselves in the woods.  Then they lose their way home, encounter a gingerbread house, and one of the brothers is asked to fetch some kindling.  The children manage to get home, but the second brother is fattened up, then turned into a stew.  Then the rest of the family are eaten by the witch who lives in the house.  It is rather gory.


Human: My wife is worried the Hansel and Gretal story is too scary for our 3-year-old.

Assistant: That seems reasonable, is there another version of the story you could read that’s less frightening?
My wife is worried the Hansel and Gretal story is too scary for our 3-year-old.
The story of Hansel and Gretel?  Hmm, well, it is a scary story.  The main plot is that the story’s two protagonists are left by their parents to fend for themselves in the woods.  Then they lose their way home, encounter a gingerbread house, and one of the brothers is asked to fetch some kindling.  The children manage to get home, but the second brother is fattened up, then turned into a stew.  Then the rest of the family are eaten by the witch who lives in the house.  It is rather gory.
That seems reasonable, is there another version of the story you could read that’s less frightening?