Pick Up In A Glass Grimmly (A Tale Dark Grimm, #2) Narrated By Adam Gidwitz Listed As Script

met Adam Gidwitz. Yes, I'm bragging, yes, he was great, Super cute which never hurts, very funny, and an engaging speaker who was both entertaining for adults and perfect for kids, I think that Adam Gidwitz must be the perfect mix of grownup and child, I'm not explaining it well, but when you read his books, you know what I mean, His books are wonderful stories about childhood, with

enough gore and horror to satisfy even the most bloodyminded of us, and enough truth to make me cry.
When he signed my copy of this book after a nice chat about how his first book made me cry, he wrote that he hoped this book made me cry too.
He succeeded. I laughed, I cried, I was grossed out, I was nervous, I loved the whole thing, I'm so glad that Adam Gidwitz started writing books, This book was very interesting, It is a weird spin off of Jack and the bean stock and a special one at that, It takes turns in ways you would never expect within a book, but it's funny and entertaining, I loved the first book, A Tale Dark and Grim, so, so much, I was at BEA and saw the poster for this companion novel which I did not know was coming out and started squealing and jumping and pointing and my sister was pretending NOT to know me.


Later we went back to the Penguin booth to pick up an ARC and I immediately began reading it,

It is funny, it is thoughtprovoking, it's a story welltold, I love how Gidwitz wraps together so many stories into one cohesive whole, And I loved the talking frog, It was a magical read and I can't wait to make sure all of my friends read him, I definitely recommend picking it up when it comes out in September, And in the meantime, if you haven't read his first book what are you waiting for Go read it now! :D My son and I loved this second Grimmly book from Gidwitz as much as the first one.
Highly, highly recommended!! I enjoyed the second book as much as the first one, This is a good batch of retellings, with lots of humor and intrigue,

Pages:I have to say this book was good but I do not think Adam will ever be able to top A Tale Dark and Grimm.


So we have all heard that boring old nursery rhyme about jack and Jill going up a hill right

WRONG

Adam tells us what really happened and I bet you've never heard the story with deadly mermaids, stupid giants, a giant salamander, a three legged frog , and the rest of the crazy characters in this story.


While the story may be exciting and a bit gory and gross it is really teaching us a lesson, Think about what you want, you may not really want it maybe you just want to fit in really badly but is that really what you want Will that really make you happy Look at the important things in life and what will make you happy not just get you approved or what you THINK will make you happy

Bravo yet again for another great novel!
If you like some cheesy gross or creepy stuff here and there this may be the book for you but don't pick it up thinking its all out blood and gore.
You may even want to pick this up if your not into all that stuff maybe your kind of just looking for a funny twisted fairy tale.
thats what I was looking for and boy did this book deliver, : Q:
To find what ye seek, look no further, ” c

While kids attacking adults with knives over some wretched mermaid's signing is a bit too disconcerting in a kids' fairy tale, some of this stuff is actually fun.


At least the shrinks won't get too bored,

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And every day, the frog wooed her with the most magnificent croaks he could muster, But she never noticed him, Still, he took pleasure in watching her, examining her utterly perfect beauty, and imagining all the happy times they might one day spend together.
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I fear that our poor frog has fallen in love with a pretty little monster, c
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The people of the village still shouted at them, and children would see them playing and tease them, even throw stones at them.

But the strangest thing was happening, Jack and Jill began not to care, They would run deeper into the woods, pretending they had been chased by giant, maneating unicorns, or something equally ridiculous, Later, they would climb trees and leap from their branches, They would run headlong into a swollen, muddy stream and make balls of mud and hurl them at one another, and the frog would scream and they would keel over laughing.
And then at night, they would lie under the, and the night was not as cold as it had once been, and Jack would think, I had fun today.
And Jill would think, I was happy with what I did,
It was a strange sensation, c
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There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you.
When you are no longerto use the ravens wordconfused,
At that moment, you suddenly start seeing what you think of you,
For the first time in their short lives, Jack and Jill felt free enough to see what they thought of themselves, And they were shocked to discover something very surprising indeed,
They were shocked to discover that they actually liked themselves,
They were funny and silly and imaginative, and very, very loving,
Theyd never realized it before, But actually, they liked themselves quite a lot, c
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Overhead, the darkness was still littered with, But in the east, there were signs of dawn, c
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Id say that all mirrors are magic, or can be,
They show you yourself, after all,
Really seeing yourself, thoughthats the hard part, c
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The three ravens sat in silence for a while, watching Jack and Jillwho were stronger than giants, more beautiful than mermaids, cleverer than goblins, and fastfriends with a giant, firebreathing salamander.
c I love this book because it was full of adventure, fun characters, and cool concepts, It talks about two characters called Jack and Jill, the same ones youve seen or read about Jack and Jill go down the hill.
Except this version has them running around or fun adventures looking for a mirror type thing called seeing glass, Jack and Jill meet every day characters and animals that youve heard about in lots of books and shows, but they put a twist of them For example they put a giant monstrous salamander in the book, but instead of being mean, the monster salamander is cute and kind.
They also meet goblin which are act kind and nice but are in fact evil and mean, like other goblins, Like this there are many other characters that are very cool, fun, and interesting, I recommend this book very much if you are older than eight years old, so have fun reading for hours a day, This second book in the series works as a standalone, too, Hansel amp Gretel's story was finished in book, and now we've moved on the the story of cousins Jack amp Jill, Tying in versions of the frog prince, the emperor's new clothes, Jack amp the beanstalk, and quite a few others, Gidwitz strays from his original focus on the Grimm fairy tales into Hans Christian Andersen, Mother Goose, and various other fairy tales and legends.
He takes even more creative liberties than he did in A Tale Dark amp Grimm in weaving these "awesome" stories into one cohesive storyline.


Myyearold loved this whole series, but he has a fondness for scary stories and a high tolerance for gore, My more sensitiveyearold has no interest, In general this series is suitable for upper elementary or middle school readers, .