Author: Polly
Shulman
Genre: Fantasy,
fairy taleish
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8.5
Type: Fiction
Number of
pages: 325
Time
period: Present
My overall
opinion: The concept for this book is definitely one an author could have
fun with! Here’s the deal: there’s this library type of building in New York.
Except they don’t just lend books – rather, you can check out almost anything.
Clothes (costumes), kitchen utensils, shoes, tools…all there and available for
checking out. But there are also the special collections: fairy tale items
(like a mermaid’s comb, the twelve dancing princesses shoes, or Snow White’s
evil step-mother’s mirror) or I think there’s a science fiction section too (it
wasn’t mentioned much, but I think it’s H. G. Wells type stuff – a time machine
etc). Doesn’t that make you curious? This book is about the Grimm Collection,
all those fun fairy tale things. Now the thing that really makes them
interesting is that they actually work. The mermaid comb makes your hair
luxuriant. The mirror actually replies to you, if you talk in rhyme. See how
this is a fun book? I enjoyed it a lot. The only drawback that there might be
is that there is some teen romance, but not a lot, and I didn’t have a serious
problem with it.
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