You might have heard that Stephen King took Maurice Sendak’s illustrations and sent them out into the world as a picture book called Hansel and Gretel. Here is the story of how I finally read it: One Saturday I needed a change of scenery and took a few hours to browse my local library. I sat at a table (in a too tall chair), read half of an adult graphic novel (while charging my phone, and after breaking a fingernail trying to get said book), wandered around and found something else, then I sat again (this time in a really squishy chair) and read some more. I got up, wandered into the children’s section (which was free of the littlest readers) and looked. I wandered to the back of the room where I found a face out that was the last book on the top shelf (eye level to this vertically challenged (physically) adult). It was Hansel and Gretel.
I picked it up and instead of finding an adult seat (there were a few), I stood reading this longer, mostly familiar (but with a few twists that are fresh) King picture book book. King might have had a hand in things, but it is not full on old school him. The illustrations of Sendak are both cozy and creepy and while look Sendakish, have something else to them that at first glance are not what you expect (this is no Little Bear). I enjoyed it and figured it is a nice addition to your fairy/folktale collections, King or Sendak collections.
This is the story why you should read it: Because I said so! So there! (insert tongue sticking out emoji).