ALA Notable Book "Unlike any children's book I've ever read. School Library Journal Best Book of the Year NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Selection Selection on the Today Show's Al's Book Club for Kids Two children venture through forests, flee kingdoms, face ogres and demons and monsters, and, ultimately, find their way home. It is the grimmest tale I have ever heard. But they have nothing on the story I'm about to tell. (Okay, I guess that one's not that grim.) Those are the real fairy tales. And in a tale called "The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage," a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Cinderella's stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds. About the Book "Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories"-īook Synopsis Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim.
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