格林童话《汉赛尔与格莱特》改编绘本对比篇图片占位：http://211.147.4.173/home/UserFiles/01/02/51/14/album/1025114_1124955775171.jpg
说明：
1.为了对比的方便，我将按照绘本的文字模式来讨论这个改编。先是把原来的文字罗列上来，后面是分析绘本版与文字版的不同之处。划粗体的部分是绘本版和文字版有区别的地方。
2.我参照的文字版格林童话版本是“Text and drawing copyright©1972 Random House, from the Pantheon book The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales”，绘本版的文字由RIKA LESSER撰写。
这个绘本恰好网上有全本，效果不是很好，整体色调比原书要亮太多。
阅读地址如下：http://www.scancoo.com/sqs_Hansel&Gretel_PaulOZelinsky/html/image1.htm
4. 英文文字版阅读：http://www.mordent.com/folktales/grimms/hng/hng.html
中文文字版阅读：http://www.white-collar.net/child/fairy_tale/gl/015.htm
以下进入正文：
01－02
HARD BY a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread. Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife: "What is to become of us? How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?" "I'11 tell you what, husband," answered the woman, "early to-morrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them." "No, wife," said the man, "I will not do that; how can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest--the wild animals would soon come and tear them to pieces." "0, you fool!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins," and she left him no peace until he consented. "But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man.
01－02
这是前两页的内容，因为在文字版中，这两页的文字部分内容比较紧密，所以就合并在一起说说看。
加粗体的文字是文字版和绘本版不太一样的地方。第一个地方“when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread”，这是绘本版完全删掉的内容，在原来的故事里，有一个大背景。也就是某一年收成不好的时候，这个伐木工赚不到钱了，才连每天吃的面包也没办法买。但是绘本里只有结果的交代，只是简单的说，他没办法维持一家四口的生计了。
去掉这个背景，一个可能是为了精简文字，另一个可能则是让这个故事更为普遍——没有饥荒的年份里，这样的事情也不是不可能的。
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The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel: "Now all is over with us." "Be quiet, Gretel," said Hansel, "do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us." And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in. Then he went back and said to Gretel: "Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us," and he lay down again in his bed.
03－04
这部分里，有一个非常重要的细节，是绘本版里删掉的。先说两个小的改动：
1.文字版的妹妹不但哭泣起来，而且说了一句非常悲观的话“这下我们全完蛋了。”绘本没有那句话。
2.第二个地方就是细节描写部分，绘本版去掉了。
最大的改动出在孩子们母亲的身份上，文字版里，母亲早已死去，现任的是继母，而绘本版里，母亲就是亲生母亲，完全没有提及后母这回事。
如果联系最开始的去掉大背景的细节，可以推测出，绘本版的文字作者，应该是在努力营造一个更理性，或者说的极端一点，更“冷酷”的效果。想想看，不知什么灾祸一家人就可能断粮，根本不用等到饥荒年代；不用继母，亲生母亲也会轼子。