Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
This was everything I hoped for and more.
First of all, as a fairy tale fanatic, I was more than pleased that Gidwitz used not only Grimm tales but the works of Anderson, Joseph Jacobs, and even Mother Goose. Alongside his thrilling original stories, this makes for an amazing, engaging tale that I liked even more than A Tale Dark and Grimm.
Again, Gidwitz used two main characters, a boy and a girl - cousins Jack and Jill. (Also a frog, who was probably my favorite character.) We following the two humans and amphibian through exciting, heart-stopping, incredibly gory stories as they search for what they want most in the world.
We meet goblins, giants, and a monster whose name I cannot spell. We travel up beanstalks, through a goblin market, into a creepy murderer's house. We gag at the disgusting scenes, gasp at treacherous plans, and cackle at Gidwitz's witty humor. Most of all, we learn - we learn the true magic of the Seeing Glass, and we learn never to answer a salamander's question.
First of all, as a fairy tale fanatic, I was more than pleased that Gidwitz used not only Grimm tales but the works of Anderson, Joseph Jacobs, and even Mother Goose. Alongside his thrilling original stories, this makes for an amazing, engaging tale that I liked even more than A Tale Dark and Grimm.
Again, Gidwitz used two main characters, a boy and a girl - cousins Jack and Jill. (Also a frog, who was probably my favorite character.) We following the two humans and amphibian through exciting, heart-stopping, incredibly gory stories as they search for what they want most in the world.
We meet goblins, giants, and a monster whose name I cannot spell. We travel up beanstalks, through a goblin market, into a creepy murderer's house. We gag at the disgusting scenes, gasp at treacherous plans, and cackle at Gidwitz's witty humor. Most of all, we learn - we learn the true magic of the Seeing Glass, and we learn never to answer a salamander's question.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Do you like scary, but not so scary books? Well this may be just the book your looking for! The genre of this book is fantasy. I really loved this book and liked it better than the first, A Tale, Dark& Grimm book. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars but will later explain why.
The setting of this book takes place in many different places like: Märchen, Goblin Market, Goblin Kingdom, Eddie's Cave, Giants Cave, and a tavern. So mainly I can't put a main seeking because the characters travel to many, many place throughout this story. In a kingdom called Märchen there was a beautiful queen and a pretty princess named Jill. A royal procession comes up and Jill has to wear a dress, but when the merchant shows it to her she can't see it, but when she puts it on then she can see it and it is beautiful. Although the dress is beautiful, when she stands on a very high balcony with her mom, a kid cries out that she is naked. Everyone laughs and her mother is abhorred! Jill, being embarrassed, runs away crying and finds her cousin's house. Her cousin is Jack. Jack likes to follow this boy Marie, but Marie taunts him and the other villager boys do too. He trades his cow for a 'magic bean'. He finds that it does indeed grow into a beanstalk and Jill finds his house and then after deciding awhile they climb it because this old woman says they have to look for The Seeing Glass. *By the way Jill meets Frog and then goes to Jack's house.* as they climb up and up and up they eventually find a Giants cave or something like that and Jack goes in and then Jill and Frog follow him. Jack had to prove himself that he was brave and strong so these giants make him throw rocks, which are huge boulders but her can't throw them so he pleads with them and they tell him that he has to break 3 sticks, but they are tree trunks! Jack couldn't break them so the Giants say the have to eat him and Jill. Before they are going to eat Jack the Giants hold a challenge and surprisingly Jill enters too. ***Spoiler Alert*** Jill wins the food challenge and tricks the Giants by showing all the food in her 'stomach'(used a blanket) and then they have to too so all the Giants use knives and end up killing themselves. ***end Spoiler Alert*** Jack and Jill and Frog runs out of the Giants cave and Jack is ashamed so he ends up falling out of the sky and tumbling towards a hill and broke his head going down, Jill and Frog are okay though. Jill finds a woman who takes care of Jack and Jill. One night Jill heard a song and a mermaid is singing it. This mermaid sings her song so she can kill a unsuspecting girl because only little girls can hear it. The mermaid tells Jill about what happened to her family and every night Jill finds the mermaid and then one night the mermaid catches Jill and Jill figures out that the mermaid had lied. Jill thankfully gets rescued and Jack is better so they leave the tavern that they had stayed in. They reached a gray valley and they were so thirsty and hungry. Then three Ravens flew towards the and talked to them. The Ravens flew away afterwards, but Jack and Jill were confused by what the advice the Ravens had given them. They told Jack and Jill that they were con-fused. They told them " when you do what you want, not what you wish… "Said the first Raven. "when you no longer seek your reflection in others eyes… "Said the second. "when you see yourselves face-to-face… "Said the third. "Then, the ravens intoned in unison, " you will have found what you truly seek." After awhile of stumbling they finally found a great and humongous market filled with tons of fruit and weapons and...goblins? Jill heads towards the fruit stands and all the goblins selling fruit say she is beautiful and pretty, but she feels wrong and tries to shove away the goblins but they just keep coming back for her and pushing her and holding her. Finally a goblin shoves and apple into her mouth and it barely touches her teeth and she collapses. Jack heads towards a ramp but hears Jill calling for him and tries to shove the goblins away but they carry Jill off to a palace. Jack follows him but is it off when he sees a sword that he loves and a goblin says it will only cost him his left hand. Jack doesn't do it and races off to find Jill. He finds her and then they meet a great big and smelly fire-breathing salamander and become friends and they also find the seeing glass in his stomach. Eddie is the salamanders name and he kills all the goblins. Then Jack and Jill go back to the village and give the glass to the old woman, but then Jack and Jill tell the woman and two others with her to turn them selves in. Then Jack and Jill find their parents but then they leave because they end up not liking their parents. Jack and Jill make a living outside of town and many kids come by them to play and hear stories. At the end Jack and Jill like and are reunited with their parents. The type of conflict is character(s) vs. Society. It's that type of conflict because both Jack and Jill go on this huge adventure and have to overcome obstacles. They have to fight and be reunited sometimes, but they came together in the end.
I was surprised when Jack and Jill actually decided to go in Eddie's mouth and get the Seeing Glass! If I were them I would have not gone in his mouth because that is just plain Gross. In the story it says, "Jill turned back toward Eddie, closed her eyes, did not take a deep breath, and grabbed Jack's left hand. But Jack said, "wait." He ran back into the corridor and got his discarded spear. The children stepped over Eddie's lip and into his mouth." When I read this I was kinda grossed out because they are going INTO someone else's mouth to get a seeing glass in Eddie's intestines. I had predicted that the Seeing Glass was magic and would grant wishes, but it turned out that it was just a mirror. In the story it says, "Jack smiled, and answered, "it means that it took a crazy quest, and almost done lots of times, and more pain than anyone should ever have to go through-but we finally figured out what we'd been looking for all along. ""And, "said Jill, "at that very moment, we found it. ""What was it?" a big boy he shouted. "It was right there in the glass, "Jack replied. "What? "Said Elsie. "What did you see? "Jack smiled. "What did you think we saw? It's a mirror. We saw ourselves. "
I couldn't understand why Jill shattered her mother's looking glass. I know she was mad and all, but to shatter the mirror seems quite unpredictable if you ask me. In the story it states, "Jill felt the familiar twisting in her stomach that she was growing used to living at home. That she swallowed it down. She took a deep breath. She tried a new approach. "It's just the two of us here, mommy. And I don't really care about my skin." "Well, I do! It looks dreadful! You look Dreadful! "And the queen went back to testing eyeshadow. Jill said it is her beautiful mother. And then, very slowly, she reached for a heavy silver her hairbrush that sat on a side table.clean was too busy admiring a new shade of blue to notice. Nor did she noticed Joel pulled her brushback behind her head. But she certainly did notice the brush crash into the large silver mirror and send it shivering, shattering, into a million pieces. "I DON'T CARE!" Jill screamed. Jill's mother turned around, mouth agape, I was as wide as moons. And anger and hurt so deep, so old, excluded from the little girl. "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK! I DON'T CARE! You stare in that mirror all day long and you don't even see! You don't even see!" And then Jill spun and ran. The queen was frozen. At last, she shook herself, stood, and hurried to her chamber door. She looked down the hall. Empty. She looked back in her room. Her mirror was shattered. And yet, in that moment, the queen was not concerned with the mirror. Not at all. She was much more concerned about something else. Someone else. When she found very, very surprising. "Jill! "She cried out. "JILL! " But it was too late. Jill was gone. I thought the ending was a little unpredictable, but very considerable. At the end of the story it says, perched to far up above in a pine tree, the ravens looked down upon the scene. The third Raven said, "okay, I have a question. What happens that next? To Jack and Jill?" "Don't you know? "Scoffed the second. "You see the future as well as we do. ""Yes, "said the third. "But the future is very large, and it's hard to keep track of everything. ""When they grow up, they will share the throne of Märchen, "said the second maven "but they'll marry other people, "the first interjected. "Right. And Eddie will lead their armies. ""Not that that they ever fight a war, "said the purse. "Who would want to fight any? ""True. And they were governed by the light of the scene glass. "Coat which just means, "explain the first, "but they'll read the inscription from time to time to remind themselves. ""Exactly. And they will be the greatest and wises rulers in the history of the kingdom of Märchen." And, "and of the first Raven, "they will live happily ever after. "The three ravens sat in silence for a while, watching Jack and Jill-who were stronger than Giants, more beautiful than mermaids, cleverer than goblins, and fast-friends with a giant, fire-breathing salamander. Finally, the third Raven asked, "the end? "And the second raven said, "the end. "And the first Raven said, "the end." And that my friends was THE END.
In conclusion, I give In A glass Grimmly 5 out of 5 stars. I give it that rating because this may have been one of my favorite Grimm books that I have read so far. I liked it better than A Tale, Dark & Grimm. The author didn't much interrupt or spoil things through the story, unlike A Tale, Dark & Grimm. I recommend this book to people who don't mind some grotesque and a little scary parts in books. I want to mainly recommend this book to Emily Erazo because she has read all, but three of the Grimm books and I would like to see if she can read this one too. So that is my book review and keep on reading people!
The setting of this book takes place in many different places like: Märchen, Goblin Market, Goblin Kingdom, Eddie's Cave, Giants Cave, and a tavern. So mainly I can't put a main seeking because the characters travel to many, many place throughout this story. In a kingdom called Märchen there was a beautiful queen and a pretty princess named Jill. A royal procession comes up and Jill has to wear a dress, but when the merchant shows it to her she can't see it, but when she puts it on then she can see it and it is beautiful. Although the dress is beautiful, when she stands on a very high balcony with her mom, a kid cries out that she is naked. Everyone laughs and her mother is abhorred! Jill, being embarrassed, runs away crying and finds her cousin's house. Her cousin is Jack. Jack likes to follow this boy Marie, but Marie taunts him and the other villager boys do too. He trades his cow for a 'magic bean'. He finds that it does indeed grow into a beanstalk and Jill finds his house and then after deciding awhile they climb it because this old woman says they have to look for The Seeing Glass. *By the way Jill meets Frog and then goes to Jack's house.* as they climb up and up and up they eventually find a Giants cave or something like that and Jack goes in and then Jill and Frog follow him. Jack had to prove himself that he was brave and strong so these giants make him throw rocks, which are huge boulders but her can't throw them so he pleads with them and they tell him that he has to break 3 sticks, but they are tree trunks! Jack couldn't break them so the Giants say the have to eat him and Jill. Before they are going to eat Jack the Giants hold a challenge and surprisingly Jill enters too. ***Spoiler Alert*** Jill wins the food challenge and tricks the Giants by showing all the food in her 'stomach'(used a blanket) and then they have to too so all the Giants use knives and end up killing themselves. ***end Spoiler Alert*** Jack and Jill and Frog runs out of the Giants cave and Jack is ashamed so he ends up falling out of the sky and tumbling towards a hill and broke his head going down, Jill and Frog are okay though. Jill finds a woman who takes care of Jack and Jill. One night Jill heard a song and a mermaid is singing it. This mermaid sings her song so she can kill a unsuspecting girl because only little girls can hear it. The mermaid tells Jill about what happened to her family and every night Jill finds the mermaid and then one night the mermaid catches Jill and Jill figures out that the mermaid had lied. Jill thankfully gets rescued and Jack is better so they leave the tavern that they had stayed in. They reached a gray valley and they were so thirsty and hungry. Then three Ravens flew towards the and talked to them. The Ravens flew away afterwards, but Jack and Jill were confused by what the advice the Ravens had given them. They told Jack and Jill that they were con-fused. They told them " when you do what you want, not what you wish… "Said the first Raven. "when you no longer seek your reflection in others eyes… "Said the second. "when you see yourselves face-to-face… "Said the third. "Then, the ravens intoned in unison, " you will have found what you truly seek." After awhile of stumbling they finally found a great and humongous market filled with tons of fruit and weapons and...goblins? Jill heads towards the fruit stands and all the goblins selling fruit say she is beautiful and pretty, but she feels wrong and tries to shove away the goblins but they just keep coming back for her and pushing her and holding her. Finally a goblin shoves and apple into her mouth and it barely touches her teeth and she collapses. Jack heads towards a ramp but hears Jill calling for him and tries to shove the goblins away but they carry Jill off to a palace. Jack follows him but is it off when he sees a sword that he loves and a goblin says it will only cost him his left hand. Jack doesn't do it and races off to find Jill. He finds her and then they meet a great big and smelly fire-breathing salamander and become friends and they also find the seeing glass in his stomach. Eddie is the salamanders name and he kills all the goblins. Then Jack and Jill go back to the village and give the glass to the old woman, but then Jack and Jill tell the woman and two others with her to turn them selves in. Then Jack and Jill find their parents but then they leave because they end up not liking their parents. Jack and Jill make a living outside of town and many kids come by them to play and hear stories. At the end Jack and Jill like and are reunited with their parents. The type of conflict is character(s) vs. Society. It's that type of conflict because both Jack and Jill go on this huge adventure and have to overcome obstacles. They have to fight and be reunited sometimes, but they came together in the end.
I was surprised when Jack and Jill actually decided to go in Eddie's mouth and get the Seeing Glass! If I were them I would have not gone in his mouth because that is just plain Gross. In the story it says, "Jill turned back toward Eddie, closed her eyes, did not take a deep breath, and grabbed Jack's left hand. But Jack said, "wait." He ran back into the corridor and got his discarded spear. The children stepped over Eddie's lip and into his mouth." When I read this I was kinda grossed out because they are going INTO someone else's mouth to get a seeing glass in Eddie's intestines. I had predicted that the Seeing Glass was magic and would grant wishes, but it turned out that it was just a mirror. In the story it says, "Jack smiled, and answered, "it means that it took a crazy quest, and almost done lots of times, and more pain than anyone should ever have to go through-but we finally figured out what we'd been looking for all along. ""And, "said Jill, "at that very moment, we found it. ""What was it?" a big boy he shouted. "It was right there in the glass, "Jack replied. "What? "Said Elsie. "What did you see? "Jack smiled. "What did you think we saw? It's a mirror. We saw ourselves. "
I couldn't understand why Jill shattered her mother's looking glass. I know she was mad and all, but to shatter the mirror seems quite unpredictable if you ask me. In the story it states, "Jill felt the familiar twisting in her stomach that she was growing used to living at home. That she swallowed it down. She took a deep breath. She tried a new approach. "It's just the two of us here, mommy. And I don't really care about my skin." "Well, I do! It looks dreadful! You look Dreadful! "And the queen went back to testing eyeshadow. Jill said it is her beautiful mother. And then, very slowly, she reached for a heavy silver her hairbrush that sat on a side table.clean was too busy admiring a new shade of blue to notice. Nor did she noticed Joel pulled her brushback behind her head. But she certainly did notice the brush crash into the large silver mirror and send it shivering, shattering, into a million pieces. "I DON'T CARE!" Jill screamed. Jill's mother turned around, mouth agape, I was as wide as moons. And anger and hurt so deep, so old, excluded from the little girl. "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK! I DON'T CARE! You stare in that mirror all day long and you don't even see! You don't even see!" And then Jill spun and ran. The queen was frozen. At last, she shook herself, stood, and hurried to her chamber door. She looked down the hall. Empty. She looked back in her room. Her mirror was shattered. And yet, in that moment, the queen was not concerned with the mirror. Not at all. She was much more concerned about something else. Someone else. When she found very, very surprising. "Jill! "She cried out. "JILL! " But it was too late. Jill was gone. I thought the ending was a little unpredictable, but very considerable. At the end of the story it says, perched to far up above in a pine tree, the ravens looked down upon the scene. The third Raven said, "okay, I have a question. What happens that next? To Jack and Jill?" "Don't you know? "Scoffed the second. "You see the future as well as we do. ""Yes, "said the third. "But the future is very large, and it's hard to keep track of everything. ""When they grow up, they will share the throne of Märchen, "said the second maven "but they'll marry other people, "the first interjected. "Right. And Eddie will lead their armies. ""Not that that they ever fight a war, "said the purse. "Who would want to fight any? ""True. And they were governed by the light of the scene glass. "Coat which just means, "explain the first, "but they'll read the inscription from time to time to remind themselves. ""Exactly. And they will be the greatest and wises rulers in the history of the kingdom of Märchen." And, "and of the first Raven, "they will live happily ever after. "The three ravens sat in silence for a while, watching Jack and Jill-who were stronger than Giants, more beautiful than mermaids, cleverer than goblins, and fast-friends with a giant, fire-breathing salamander. Finally, the third Raven asked, "the end? "And the second raven said, "the end. "And the first Raven said, "the end." And that my friends was THE END.
In conclusion, I give In A glass Grimmly 5 out of 5 stars. I give it that rating because this may have been one of my favorite Grimm books that I have read so far. I liked it better than A Tale, Dark & Grimm. The author didn't much interrupt or spoil things through the story, unlike A Tale, Dark & Grimm. I recommend this book to people who don't mind some grotesque and a little scary parts in books. I want to mainly recommend this book to Emily Erazo because she has read all, but three of the Grimm books and I would like to see if she can read this one too. So that is my book review and keep on reading people!
It's like Hansel and Gretel walking through fairy tales in all their gory glory. There is no shortage of blood, vomit, and middle school boy filth. Hans Christian got his stories cause the frog told them...
Lacks a little bit of the charm of the first in the series but Gidwitz proves in this book that he can create tales just as dark and creepy as the Grimm Brothers who inspire him
Just as good as the first one! Where 'A Tale Dark and Grimm' focused on the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, 'In a Glass Grimmly' follows the travels of cousins Jack and Jill. While Mr. Gidwitz sticks to the original fairy tales a little less in this book, his stories are still just as good! He draws inspiration from many different places, but the gist of each chapter is made up of his own warped ideas (seriously...the giant story? Bleck!).
If you like re-imagined dark fairy tales, then this is definitely the series for you. As soon as I finished this book I purchased and downloaded the final book to this series, 'The Grimm Conclusion'. So glad I stumbled on these books...they've been a fun way to pass a few hours.
If you like re-imagined dark fairy tales, then this is definitely the series for you. As soon as I finished this book I purchased and downloaded the final book to this series, 'The Grimm Conclusion'. So glad I stumbled on these books...they've been a fun way to pass a few hours.
adventurous
dark
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
UGH! What a fantastical disappointment. I waited and waited for this! I LOVED the last book, but I found this one slow moving and it failed to keep my 8 y/o's attention. Not enough gore, I 'spose.