Newbery Medal winner
Neil Gaiman sat with TOON Books publisher
Françoise Mouly and Pulitzer Prize winner
Art Spiegelman to discuss
his new graphic novel,
Hansel and Gretel. The video embedded above features the entire conversation.
Gaiman confesses that
the “Hansel and Gretel” fairy tale really frightens him, but he does believe that children must be exposed to dark stories. Gaiman thinks that “if you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. I think it is really important to show dark things to kids—and in the showing, to also show that dark things can be beaten, that you have power.”
