Hello, my name is Mariam.
Today's story is one that you may have last heard when you were very young.
It involves two children who head off into a forest where things take a turn for the worse.
These children are a girl and boy called Hansel and Gretel.
When they were very young, their mother died, but their father remarried.
Of course, as is always the way in fairy tales,
the children's new stepmother turns out to be cruel and evil.
This is how cruel she is.
One day, she leads the children deep into the forest.
The children are scared, especially as their father has told them never to go there.
But she turns a blind eye.
and leads them deeper and deeper into the forest, turning this way and that.
And then she leaves them there alone,
apart from the birds and the squirrels and some other wildlife.
But that smart-thinking Hansel has used some breadcrumbs that he found in his pocket to lay a trail so they can find their way home.
Simple!
Unfortunately...
When they turn back to follow the trail,
they realise that those birds that I just mentioned have eaten all the breadcrumbs.
So the children are stranded in the deep, dark forest.