Independent Reading Level: Grades 2-7
Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, Kirkus Reviews Best Fantasy Book award

I am a sucker for Fairy Tales. ( )

This was a cute and clever book, and I enjoyed it. It was not as involved as Harry Potter (written for a younger crowd), but still very enjoyable. ( )

I have so much to do but I started this series when I was in primary school and since half the books weren't out then I never finished so I'm starting again from the beginning to the end. It's really nice when you read something again from your childhood and it's still just as good as you remembered and not completely basic like a lot of our fav kids books turn out to be

Buckley creates a world where Grimm descendants protect and police Everafters (fairy tale creatures). It was a bit of a leap to accept the characters of Grimm's tales alongside the Carroll's Queen of Hearts of Shakespeare's Puck, but their personalities and special skills aid the story well.

End of the book includes a brief history of the tales -- how they came to be, how they have been transferred/shared, and how subtle changes are made each time. Appendix also has brief list of references to fairy tale anthologies and urls for online collections. ( )