![]() ![]() The fact that it unearths some of the more frightening ones along the way just happens to be a bonus. This is a book that isn’t afraid to get to the root of a good story. I’ve never seen a book meld the snarky narrator of something like a Lemony Snicket title so seamlessly with the original tone and telling of the original Grimm fairy tales. To my surprise, Gidwitz’s debut is unlike anything I’ve ever encountered before. I guess it takes a book like A Tale Dark and Grimm to wake me out of this funk. From The Goose Girl to Into the Wild to Sisters Red I sometimes feel as if I am a little tired of fairy tales. After a while the The Sisters Grimm / The Grimm Legacy titles out there begin to meld together. Third, I couldn’t believe that I was dealing with yet ANOTHER middle grade novel adapting fairy tales in new ways. Second, the jacket of the hardcover edition of this book isn’t particularly new. I’ve said it about twenty times since reading it and every time I can’t quite get it right (derivations have included “Something Dark and Grimm”, “A Grimm Tale”, and “Something Grimm”). ![]()
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