There’s “once upon a time” and “happily ever after,” but what happens when the
story “gets all tangled up” in the middle? That question is at the heart of this
debut title in a new fairy-tale-themed series. Ten-year-old Abby and her
seven-year-old brother, Jonah, are living a normal life in a new town until they
discover the mirror in the basement. When they knock on its surface three times,
they’re whizzed away to fairy-tale land and find themselves at the home of Snow
(yes, White). Just as Evil Evelyn, her wicked stepmother, is about to hand over
the infamous poison apple, Jonah intervenes. But if Snow doesn’t eat the poison
apple, then the prince can’t save her, and that means Snow’s love life is
ruined, not to mention Disney’s whole movie. There’s lots of hilarious artistic
license here (three of the seven dwarfs are women; one has pink hair), along
with unexpected plot twists and plenty of girl power. Tween girls who may not be
quite ready for Donna Jo Napoli and Gail Carson Levine’s fractured-fairy-tale
novels will find this title is just right. Grades 4-6.
--Ann Kelley
2013-2014
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