This is a tragic and macabre poem, but it’s not really much worse than Hansel and Gretel, I supposed. Except the children in this old poem do not survive. You can see the version illustrated by Caldecott at Gutenberg. Here’s a picture to colour. The poem and picture are included in a 1920 Primary Educator […]
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