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Hansel and Gretel has always been one of my favorite Grimm tales—if you look deep enough, it will tell you a lot about the medieval life in that time. This book has many of the classic magic and cleverness of the old fairy tales; it is a look into the gaps of the siblings‘ lives that we never knew. And it is delightfully gory.

He invites girls to this house, and he reaches down their throats and rips their souls from their bodies, and he traps the souls in cages in the form of doves, to let them rot under his eaves. Then he hacks the girls‘ bodies to pieces to make our supper.

Much creepier than i expected but i loved it!SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Meh. Listened in audio and it didn‘t do a great job of keeping my attention. That‘s sad because it should have being a fairy tale retelling. Perhaps it was timing. Certainly the intended middle grade audience would probably appreciate this one.

Hmmm…this one was weird. I listened to the audiobook. At times, it was unbelievable. Was that the intention? I think so, yes. Even though the cover looks middle grade, I do not recommend it for children. Hansel & Gretel are the MCs, there are beheadings, monsters, dragons, the devil and his grandma. The narrator is sarcastic and makes up for the creep - kind of. #91 #BookSpin #BFC22 #FAIRYTALE #SuperSeptember #AutumnBingo2022 blue-cover; 3 stars

💀This was a cute little retelling of Hansel and Gretel. (thanks as always @Avanders ) 💀#DogsOfLitsy 💀

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💀 #the52bookclub2022 💀 Prompt 23: An Author with an X, Y or Z in their name – A Tale Dark and Grimm

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Because I finished my @WinterTBR already, I decided to add 3 more books :) This one is first up! Thanks again @Avanders for the lovely gift :)

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I have always loved Fairy Tales, and was shocked, while in a Children's Literature class in university, to learn that the original fairy tales were far less... innocent. This book is along the vein of the original tales, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for young children - it's pretty grim, no pun intended. I certainly enjoyed it, though.

Amazing & clever little book with hilarious narration & breaking of the fourth wall that had me giggling. It's perfectly dark, but still somehow delivered in a light, bubbly manner. The imagination & creativity mixed with Grimm's original tales made for a fantastic read I couldn't put down. Recommended for mature middle grade audiences who can handle a little violence/gore as well as any middle grade loving adults. This one is a gem!

I‘m enjoying A Tale Dark and Grimm after I finished Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I also got in my rewatch of Hocus Pocus this week. I had a busy weekend so not much watching. I did manage a lot of reading though. #teamhendrix #scarathlon2021 @StayCurious

#3books I loved

A baseball romance
Middle grade bloody fairy tale retelling
Bio of my favorite musician

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📖 Tagged & All the Boys I've Loved Before
✒ JRR Tolkien
🎥 Thor Ragnarok; Trainspotting; Troop Beverly Hills; Twins; 📺 True Blood & That 70s Show
🎸 Third Eye Blind; Emiliana Torrini;Toad the Wet Sprocket

🎶 These Arms of Mine & Try a Little Tenderness (O. Redding); Take Back the Power (Interrupters); Take It Off (Donnas); Take Warning (Op Ivy); Talk Dirty to Me (Poison); To Be Free (E.Torrini); ⬇️

A bloody Hansel and Gretel tale just right for kiddos who love gruesome tales that aren‘t too scary. Loved the audiobook!

This book was a wonderful retake on a classic fairytale; not for its content, but it‘s ingenuity! It‘s storyteller, the very author himself who peppers in his own comments throughout, has spun a tale of two children by using famous Grim Brothers Fairytales and weaving Hansel and Gretel through its twists and turns! It was undoubtedly clever! Very dark children‘s story though; the author does not wish young children to be present while reading.

#24B4MONDAY #readathon

I was able to finish this cute book before my time was up on the loan. Now I‘m headed home to start up on my next book and eat my snack.

I am up to 8 hours for the readathon.

So far I'm really enjoying this dark fairytale retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Very creepy! 😱💕📚

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What a fun read! I couldn‘t put this one down. Very cleverly done how it weaves together the story of Hansel and Gretel with other classic fairytales. One of my favorite retellings. I need to pick up the other books in this series stat. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1. Beauty & the Beast and Hansel & Gretel. Tagged is a middle grade book with a loose take on fairy tales starring Hansel & Gretel.
2. Gaston! He's such a f*ck boy. The Wheelers from Return to Oz also stand out as creepy bastards.
3. Disney's animated Beauty & the Beast, Return to Oz, and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella from 1965.

Perhaps two of my new follows will play @akckitty and @ruth_pell32

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A friend‘s mom donated to me a bunch of books for my library, but they were more suited for a middle-aged woman traveling Europe and watching how much bread she eats, so...I took them into Central Book Exchange and was able to exchange them for these books that are more suited for my junior high readers. Plus, technically these books weren‘t available for exchange, but the nice lady gave me a discount since I‘m a teacher! #Score #TeachersofLitsy

If you like fairy tales, especially retellings, reimaginings, and fractured farcical versions of older more serious stoires. This is for you! It is absolutely awesome. And while I fully understand that it is intended for younger children, like all fairy tales (or good children‘s books), it is worth reading as an adult.

When an 8 year old comes into the bookstore and tells you a book is bloody and funny in the best way, you listen! She was right. What a fun (and bloody) little adventure.

It began very promising, but gradually left me feeling less satisfied and the narrator butting in was rather annoying sometimes. After The Inquisitor's Tale by Gidwitz I had higher hopes for this one and I decided not read the others books from his Grimm series.

That's pretty much exactly what Disney did to all their fairy tales and I truly hope that all you dear Littens know the original versions as well as the Disney sugar coated animations 🙃

This came up at the library today! Excited to read this before diving back in to the New Jim Crow

More #retellings. These Grimms are fun and still darkish.
FYI: I could do this #retelling prompt all day. If I wasn't at work. Trying to earn some book money...
#sizzlinsummerbooks

Because having my nephew crawl up in to the books I'm rearranging and declaring "I want read" doesn't fill my heart with joy. And look he grabbed a book I bought intending to read with him one day. ❤️

"A tale dark and Grimm" is a dark retelling of some of the Grimm's tales, first of all the "Hansel and Gretel" story. This is a story for children that are bored with all the sugary stories. Because that book is full of creepy, dark and scary stories. But it's just not a book for kids. There is a psychological meaning behind every tale.
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I am extremely pissed right now - excuse my language, but man it's so true I don't even want to try and sound polite 😡😡😡This was NOT the edition I wanted and I had double checked on Amazon to order the right one and it took weeks for this to be shipped. I really want to dump it right away in the bin, seriously. The only reason I haven't done it, is because it's not the book's fault, but damn it, i really don't want to read it anymore 😤

I love the trend to silhouettes on covers and this is one of my favs. #favoritecover #riotgrams

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this with my two boys....thank you school library.

My youngest brought this home from the school library and we are reading together....its really good :-)

Fun trilogy for #fairytaleretelling theme today on #photoadaynov16. Hansel and Gretel wander out of their story and into many many others. Quite a humorous and wild ride story to story, but the narrator is very upfront about the Grimm-ness - people do die and other grim happenings occur.
As they should in proper fairy tales 😉

The moon wanted nothing to do with the dragon. Not that the moon is afraid of dragons. The moon is not afraid of anything, except the sun, and only then because the sun calls him names and he does not appreciate that.
#taledarkgrimm #adamgidwitz #brothersgrimm

it was dark AND grim, and a great retelling of Grimm's Hansel and Gretel story.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about this one. Not a bad book at all, but I wasn't expecting all the gore. Overall though it was a good read.