![]() ![]() Throughout Gidwitz interrupts his narrative by directly addressing his audience, commenting on the action, offering advice and challenging young readers to turn the page, drawing them in. The central theme is a quest for the magic mirror, the Seeing Glass, but as with all fairy tales this is really a quest to find oneself – as Jack and Jill discover in the end. ![]() The reader is then taken on a journey through a range of tales both familiar and less familiar, including a nod to Rosetti’s Goblin Market and Humpty Dumpty. Taking the traditional rhyme of Jack and Jill as his core, he starts with two different stories – The Princess and the Frog and Jack and the Beanstalk, bringing the hero and heroine of each together via The Emperor’s New Clothes and Snow White. ![]() The result was witty, enjoyable and somewhat anarchic as Hansel and Gretel progressed through a number of well known and less well known stories to a happy ending. ![]() As the omniscient narrator, he took great pleasure in confounding expectations. In his first book, A Tale Dark and Grimm, Adam Gidwitz introduced his readers to a fairy tale world that was both familiar – and unfamiliar. What happened when the frog rescued the golden ball when it fell into the well? And what about Jack and that unfortunate transaction – a cow for a bean (allegedly magic)? What really happened to Jack and Jill? ![]()
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