Hansel and Greta by Jeanette Winterson, Laura Barrett

Hansel and Greta live with their dad and GreedyGuts, their aunt.  Their mother had died.  Greedy Guts eats them out of house and home, and steals dad's money for more food.

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Their father had lost his job cutting trees down because he liked nature and didn't want to kill more trees.  When he finds out she ate not only the food they had but stole his money he confronts her.  She just tells him to go get another job.

His old boss comes to their cabin and takes Hansel and Greta out in the woods and leaves them.  Luckily Hansel tossed things out the window so they could find their way back.

You'll meet a walking tree and a witch.  GreedyGuts is in for surprise...

Duckling by Kamila Shamsie, Laura Barrett

Mama Duck is sitting on her eggs, hatching them.  She has one egg that is bigger than the others and it takes longer to hatch...

Haymarket Books and Edelweiss gave me the opportunity to read this book for review (thank you).  It has been published and you can get a copy now.

When the egg hatches, the gosling is bigger than her others and looks dirty.  He's good at getting eels for the leader of the animals.  But as time goes on, everyone turns against him.  So he flies out of the barnyard and ends up in swampy ground.  

He sees swans there and they are beautiful but they fly away before they see him.  He eats and rests and suddenly the swans are back.  He goes to see him and they welcome him.  He doesn't realize he has changed so much.  He has a surprise coming...