A Tale Dark and Grimm



 

 

 

Hook:

    "'Go home, little girl, go home;'

    'To a murderers house you've come'

   Their raspy voices ringing out in a horribe chorus:

      'Go home, little girl, go home'

   'To a murderer's house you've come" (Page 97)

              Recommendation:   Can you ever imagine your parents chopping off your head and putting it back together just so their personal servant can come back to life? Have you ever run away from home to find yourself baked in an oven? Have you ever cut off your finger so that you can turn 7 swallows into humans? Well Hansel and Gretel have. This is the real Grimm story of Hansel and Gretel. The one you probably know is when the two kids go to a baker women’s house and the get baked in an oven.  Right?  Yeah that happens but it’s only the beginning. More than once the kids risk their lives to survive. Once the run away from their mom and dad the go to other families but all of them are crazy so they leave to find a house somewhere else. After a lot of time and a lot of families they decide to live on their own and everything changes. Hansel turns into a wolf-man and has to face the devil and Gretel is left along going to a murders home. At the end they have to save their home town and fight a dragon. Will they survive? Read this book to find out what happens.

WARNING: If you get scared easily DO NOT read this book !

Title:     A Tale Dark and Grimm

Author:  Adam Gidwitz

Genre:   Fantasy

Blog By: Victoria B.