![]() ![]() ![]() (Note: these books are not for squeamish kids.)įind A Tale Dark & Grimm at your local library. Gidwitz weaves the episodic stories into a satisfying whole. In A Glass Grimmly follows the same formula, with Jack and Jill wandering through harrowing versions of The Frog Prince, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Emperor’s New Clothes, etc. Cover may vary If you dare, join Jack and Jill as they embark on a harrowing quest through a new set of tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and others. In A Tale Dark and Grimm, Hansel and Gretel meet an old lady who eats children, the devil, a dragon, and a malevolent moon. From the Newbery Honor-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Inquisitors Tale. These books revel in that darkness and delight in packaging it for the pre-teen set. I believe the whole point of fairy tales is their darkness they externalize childhood fears and give them form. Even so, I was astounded at how fast he devoured Adam Gidwitz’s pair of books loosely based on Grimm’s fairy tales-the original dark Germanic versions of the tales. Adam Gidwitz is the New York Times -bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Grimm books as well as The Inquisitors Tale, a 2016 Newbery Honor book. My eight year-old is in that phase of life when there are not enough hours in the day to take in everything he wants to read he’s been tearing through books. A dark and witty retelling of Hansel and Gretel. ![]()
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