In a glass grimmly6/12/2023 ![]() Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. Technically polished, and with more original content, this romp has lost none of the edge of its predecessor. ![]() Gidwitz can do nuance, too, as Jill’s perilous encounter with a sympathetic mermaid demonstrates. Publication date 2012 Topics Fairy tales, Characters in literature - Fiction, Frogs - Fiction, Cousins - Fiction, Adventure and adventurers - Fiction, Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure. When Jill rescues Jack atop the beanstalk by accepting the giants’ eating challenge, even the Monty Python gang might cringe at the results-it’s the phrase “no guts, no glory” brought to Technicolor life. The protagonists in this installment are Jack, Jill, and a talking frog, whose adventures begin separately in reworkings of “The Frog Prince” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” before the three join forces in “Jack and the Bean-stalk.” Parental cruelties are more ordinary this time-mockery, neglect, and recrimination-but what the children find in their quest for the Seeing Glass is horrifying enough to compensate for any perceived softness at the outset. Translation: this second foray is even more enjoyable than the author’s acclaimed debut. The grossness quotient has gone up in Gidwitz’s companion to A Tale Dark and Grimm, his grisly reimagining of classic fairy tales. ![]()
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