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noachoc 's review for:
A Tale Dark & Grimm
by Adam Gidwitz
This book was a little young for me, which was hardly its fault since it was written for younger readers. I found the interrupting narrator's voice to be vaguely irritating and a bit preachy (as opposed to A Series of Unfortunate Events, where the interrupting narrator's voice was my favorite part) but, nevertheless, it was still a pretty great book and one I'd definitely recommend to kids I know. My favorite part, really, was the message: children are braver than we think and should be trusted and challenged. The old fairy tales were "scary" and full of gore, but our great great great grandparents were raised on them, and most of them turned out just fine. Red Riding Hood's grandmother wasn't locked in a closet; she'd been eaten. Cinderella's evil stepmother didn't stomp off in a huff; she was forced to wear red-hot metal shoes to dance at Cinderella's wedding. We might be shortchanging our children by pretending that the world is not a scary place that, sooner or later, they're going to have to face.