From an Amazon.com customer review of the resurgent title, now sitting at #1 on the site's Parenting/Child Safety book category: "Too often, children's books sugarcoat harsh realities by what is known as transference. Instead of telling little ones about people who will lure them into vans with promises of candy, kidnap them, and sell them as sex slaves, we make up a story about an old lady who lives in the woods in a house made out of gingerbread and other sweets, but who turns out to be a witch who wants to eat Hansel and Gretel. Happily, this Little Golden Book wisely dispenses with the sugar and keeps it real. Kids are clearly never too young to be tased, and so they're never too young to learn about the dangers of psychotic police officers with tasers. "

Posted June 17, 2015