This story sigh....was magical and heart warming and might I add I definitely got teary eyed at the end. This was a great companion to Adam Gidwitz's first book A Tale Dark and Grimm.This story is about Jack and Jill. Now we have all read the story's and nursery rhymes. There is Jack and the Bean...
Hansel and Gretel, were living in there fathers castle. There parents wanted to execute them both. But, they went to many different house wishing and trying to live there. The first house a widow was living there, and she put hansel in the oven. They left and went to some many house which had a s...
Have you ever been so happy that you died . Well in this book you are gonna se alot of that. The genre of the book is fantasy because stuff that happen in the book dont usally happen in real life like going to hell and coming back to life. I personally love the last book it was the perfect way t...
I like this last book a lot as soon as a read the book in a glass grimly I know that I had to read this one and I was not disappointed I really like all of Adam Gidwitz books jest the way he writes an how he adds a certain tweak to his books that make them special and I think that the best factor...
Gidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark & Grimm. 2010. 256 pp. $16.99. Dutton. 978-0-525-42334-8 / 0-525-42334-6. Ages 10-13. Adam Gidwitz tells the “true” story of Hansel and Gretel with irreverent humor. After being murdered (and brought back to life) by their own father, the two children wander through the...
I never did read the original books by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, but have been schooled in at least some of the differences between what they wrote and what Disney gives us. This book came to me via my 11 year old daughter who met the author at her school and had him sign her edition. I wish her...
Quick, fun read. Gidwitz restores Grimm's fairytales to their more bloody, but still kid-safe original states...more or less. His tales are humorous and blended together into the single story of Hansel & Gretel, and there's blood, but there are also ways to skip the blood, if you're particularl...