If you loved, “Into the Woods,” as much as I did, you will truly enjoy this rendering and maybe a little fracturing and reconfiguring of several of the tales of the Brothers Grimm which are all rolled into one long continuous story with Jack and Jill as the lead characters. It is a very worthy telling and you might come away thinking, “You know, it really could have happened that way.” I highly recommend this new take on several good stories complete with that edge that the Brothers Grimm are known for but with just a little R. L. Stine (“Goosebumps” series) and even a dash of Mother Goose thrown in. It could also be linked to the stylings of S. Morgenstern’s “The Princess Bride.” There are giants and swordplay, a goblin king, mermaids, a dragon (who is other than he seems), by the way amphibians play a big part in this story (don’t want to give too much away here) it also gets a bit gross at times so, be warned, don’t eat while reading the scene with the giants doing the food competition, there are other places that are not for the squeamish, luckily the book will warn you in plenty of time to skim those pages if you aren’t up for it. This is a tale where nothing is as it seems. It has very moralistic lessons to share throughout the book in the vein of Aesop’s fables. You will come away with the concept that “Age and size don’t matter,” at least not in this fairytale.
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