I've been enjoying all of Leah Cypess' middle-grade sisterly twists on fairy tales as they've come out, but Braided , the newest...

I loved Matthew Fox's first book, The Sky Over Rebecca , so much that I ordered The Lovely Dark  (July  2023 in the UK, Hodder Children...

 I read and reread Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales as a child, with more morbid fascination than true enjoyment, although I did ap...

Windswept by Margi Preus, illustrated by Armando Veve (September 2022,    Harry N. Abrams) is a middle grade fairytale, in which a dauntless...

Happy book birthday to the lovely middle grade fantasy, The Mirrorwood  (April 12, 2022,    Atheneum Books for Young Readers), by Deva Fagan...

For those who love retellings of fairy tales, The Seventh Raven , by David Elliott, is a must-read (March 16th 2021, HMH Books for Young Rea...

If you love fairy tale reimagining's, and stories of sisters with complicated relationships, you are in for a treat with Thornwood , by ...

The Clockwork Crow , by Catherine Fisher, is the sort of mg fantasy I think I love best!  The lucky folks in the UK got to read this in Oc...

Heart of the Moors , by Holly Black (middle grade, October, 2029, Disney), lay far to long in my house unread, through no fault of its own...

Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a beloved classic, a story of a brave girl on a heroic quest that's sign-posted b...

In Dragons in a Bag (link to my review), Zetta Elliott introduced a  young boy named Jaxon, who was given a job to do by a magical old woma...

I love reimaginings of Beauty and the Beast; it's always so fun to see what different twists each author brings to the story!  And so ...

Most middle grade fairy tale retellings use the "original" story as a springboard for wild leaps of imagination, which is just f...

My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Cinderella , by Jerry Mahoney (Capstone, August 2017) is a fun one for younger middle grade readers (9-10 yea...

The Raven and the Reindeer , by T. Kingfisher (Red Wombat Tea Co., Feb. 2016), is a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's "The S...

The Wolf Hour , by Sara Lewis Holmes (Arthur A. Levine, middle grade, Sept. 2017), is a lovely book for those who like to venture into the...

I don't have all that much to say about Hunted , by Meagan Spooner, other than that if you were someone who read and reread Beauty, by...

Thanks to Betsy at Fuse #8 who has been mentioning it as a favorite for years* The Winged Girl of Knossos was for many years a title I l...