Not only will this enable them to judge whether it is right for them, but it will also prepare them to discuss it. Parents should take the narrator’s advice, however, and read the book themselves before sharing it with their kids. But if they read this book, they might be won over. Some parents may not agree that their little ones are ready to experience full-strength Grimm (let alone Shakespeare, as Gidwitz’s students have done). And although the narrator often pulls the reader aside and begs him to make sure there are no small children in the room to hear the tale, the entire book demonstrates an amazing faith in kids’ guts, brains, and hearts-not only that they can understand and appreciate such strong stuff, but that they are brave enough to take it, worthy to enjoy it, and keen to learn from it. This book is what happens when a New York City schoolteacher stitches together nine fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to form one coherent story-while, at the same time, restoring much of the original versions’ weird, scary, and bloody bits.
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