A Tale Dark and Grimm
Brooklyn schoolteacher Adam Gidwitz offers imaginative new slants on children's classics in this new collection inspired by nine Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Never before have Hansel and Gretel had an adventure like this!
Brooklyn schoolteacher Adam Gidwitz offers imaginative new slants on children's classics in this new collection inspired by nine Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Never before have Hansel and Gretel had an adventure like this!
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780525423348
Publish date: 28-10-2010
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
3.5 Exciting and funny start, but it kind of lagged the last couple of chapters. Still, my kids loved it, it was just a chore to read aloud after a while.
Hansel and Gretel are best known for their encounter with the witch who lives in the edible house, but in this middle-grade novel, they become the unfortunate characters of a number of Grimm's other, even darker and more gruesome tales. The narrator (a bit reminiscent of Lemony Snicket) warns young...
I thought this was such a creative tale. It takes 8 fairy tales, most unfamiliar, and weaves them together into a wonderfully original plot.I love how the author slightly manipulated the fairy tales so that they all fit together. He sought out to put together this puzzle that no one else bothered to...
So why are all the versions of the stories you’ve heard so mind-numbingly boring? You know how it is with stories. Someone tells a story. Then somebody repeats it and it changes. Someone else repeats it, and it changes again. Then someone’s telling it to their kid and taking out all the . . . well, ...
If they ever invent a machine that lets you throw in books you've read and gives you a new book that combines elements from all of them, I think this is what you will get when you put in Grimm's Fairy Tales (obviously, but the gruesome bits in particular), The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stup...
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