Review of the Day: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Russell Brand

Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By Russell Brand

Illustrated by Chris Riddell

Atria Books (a division of Simon & Schuster)

$19.99

ISBN: 978-1-4767-9189-0

On shelves now.

If there is a trend to be spotted amongst the celebrity children’s books being released these days then I think it boils down to a general perception on their part that books for kids aren’t subversive enough. This is a bit of a change of pace from the days when Madonna would go about claiming there weren’...