Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Fairy Tales from Grimm
Grimm Brothers · 2012
75/100
👍 Worth It
Philip Pullman's 2012 retelling brings genuine literary intelligence to the Grimm canon — his commentary on each tale's history and variants rewards adult readers alongside the stories themselves, and his prose is confident without smoothing away all the rough edges that make these tales last. Parents of very young children should preview; the original Grimm darkness is present here, not sanitized away. For families with older children and adult fans of folklore, this is a worthy keeper.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing82
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit70
👁 Human-eye gut-check78
Penny’s verdict75
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