Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

Vivian Vande Velde, Author, Brad Weinman, Illustrator . Harcourt/Magic Carpet $5.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-15-205572-1

The author reexamines a baker's dozen worth of classic tales, casting the characters in a different light (e.g., the Frog Prince regains his human form and eschews the snooty princess for a humbler maiden). Ages 8-12. (Aug.)

Featured Children's Reviews

Betty Culley

Culley’s (Three Things I Know Are True) evocative verse centers 16-year-old adoptee Rynn searching for answers about her past. Rynn lives on a Maine garlic farm with her Continue reading »

Kristina Forest

Black 17-year-olds and southern New Jerseyans Zyla Matthews and Kai Jones are polar opposites. Zyla, who doesn’t date to avoid repeating her now-divorced parents’ mistakes, is Continue reading »

Adi Alsaid

Using an omniscient third-person narrator, Alsaid’s (Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak) speculative airport adventure reimagines an ordinary layover in Atlanta. Continue reading »

Elana K Arnold

In a picture book set when “we all had to stay home for the whole long springtime,” a white-presenting family on a walk finds two eggs in the shallows of a park lake. The Continue reading »