A Tale Dark and Grimm

by Adam Gidwitz

One of them, Laura Amy Schlitz, read the English version of A Smile as Red as Blood to me when I was very young, thus warping my mind forever.

Has your teacher ever said to you, “Today, children, we’re going to read a Cinderella story where the stepsisters cut off their toes and their heels with a butcher’s knife! And then they get their eyes pecked out by birds! Ready? Is everyone sitting crisscross-applesauce?”