Zoe flüchtet sich vor dem Regen in eine Bank, die ausgerechnet wenige Minuten nach ihrem Eintreffen überfallen wird! Der Raub eskaliert und mehrere Menschen sterben dabei. Zoe nimmt dieses Schicksal nicht hin und setzt ihre Fähigkeit ein: sie kann die Zeit zurückdrehen."Nie mehr zurück" ist ein inte...
Grade: 5th Reading Level: 920L This collection of fairy tales is great from Rapunzel to Cinderella. The Grimm collection allows for teachers ti use the stories for character development and setting comparison.
I love VVV's writing and her take on Rumpelstiltskin's story was, for lack of a better word, magical. I love an author who writes with a great sense of humor!
I was going to die. I was never going to get past the first step of the game, and I was going to die. -Chapter 4 Between the barbarian hordes waiting at our northern border for the first sign of weakness, and the peasant uprisings in the east, now is not the time for an inexperienced sheepherder ...
By way of contrast to The Magic Nesting Doll, this is a fairy tale set in an unspecified place and time best classified as Middle Ages, European. Despite its setting, it feels contemporary in the lesson it is teaching about how to be a decent, empathetic human being. It's light in tone, rather snark...
I've always liked Vivian Vande Velde's short story takes on very twisted fairy tales, and this book did not disappoint in that regard, though it is certainly not my favorite of hers. My favorite story in this particular collection was the first, a retelling of "Rumplestiltskin" that was charmingly...
This book started out bad for me – with an author’s note in which she makes fun of the original Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood.Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a dif...
Quite honestly, I liked the idea of this collection more than I liked the stories. I did appreciate the humor and the fact that Velde did address the issues she'd always had with the Little Red Ridinghood story in its varied incarnations. I actually agree with her on many points. However, I think a ...
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