MONDAY: The Sisters Grimm: A Very Grimm Guide by Michael Buckley

A guide book to the Sisters Grimm series. The final book in the series releases this spring. This book reviews the main characters and major plot points as well as giving information on the major fairy tale writers like the original Grimm siblings, Hans Christian Anderson, Frank Baum, etc. Great resource for fans of the series as well as new comers. Reading this is a great way to gear up for the series finale.

You can read some of my reviews on the series here.

4 out of 5 stars

Cautions: This series focuses on the darker sides of the fairy tales. Not for readers looking for Disney Princess-type stories

TUESDAY: The Sisters Grimm series

(for ages 9-12)
Fairy tales with a twist. The Grimm sisters have been on their own, moving from foster home to foster home, just trying to survive the awful situations where their caseworker places them. Their parents disappeared and they have no other family. But one day, a woman shows up, claiming to be their grandmother. While it is nice to get away from the creepy foster homes, the girls aren't sure they can trust a grandmother they have never heard of.

It turns out that the girls come from the famous Grimm family, as in the Brothers Grimm. And fairy tale characters are actually alive and living among us. Most live in Ferryport Landing where the Grimms live in order to keep the Everafters in line because fairy tale characters aren't always what you might expect.

This is a great series. Each book ends with a cliff hanger that has you hounding the bookshelves and library shelves for the next installment. The darkness of some content makes this for older readers - around 9 or 10 and up.