By: Michael Buckley
If you don't have your own middle-grader with whom to share A Book & A Bite (Youth Services 7/20) - read this anyway! It's a wonderful take on the modern-day lives of Prince Charming, Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf, et al and the descendants of their 19th Century chroniclers. Enhanced with charcoal drawings and woodcut silhouettes, plus a Reader's Guide. For an adult take on this theme, try Jasper Fforde's Eyre Affair, Frank Beddor's Seeing Redd, Gregory Maguire's Wicked or his stand-alone folk-tale based historical fiction. Review by Anne. (Fiction) 07/08/09
