This book is the bloody, true story of Hansel and Gretel. I would have never picked this book up if my friend hadn't have recommended it to me. It was a great story with a very funny narrator in it. I recommend this book and it's companion, In a Glass Grimmly.

This story is about the bloody, "true" tale of Hansel and Gretel. What I like about this book is that it has a bunch of different fairy tales in one. It was a great book and I highly recommend it to 5th graders or really mature 4th graders. Hansel and Gretel go on trips to amazing, fairy tale places where they get in to trouble and get out of trouble. What could be better than this blood curling tale?

Ivy and Bean is a book about friendship. This is a realistic fiction story about a girl who moves in on Bean's street. She is a strange girl, who is always reading. I mean come on, what kinda kid just reads all day? Ivy also has on a robe colored purple, with gold stars and moons glued on to it. Maybe she's not your average kid, but neither is Bean.

If three words could describe this book they would be: suspenseful, mysterious, and amazing. Sheila Turnage has out done herself with this amazing book. It is a mystery so big that even I didn't see the answer coming. I would have never expected in my life that....Well, you get the point. Such an amazing book.

This is an AMAZING book!! When Hansel and Gretel leave their home, looking for better parents, they don't realize that they are starting a long, adventurous journey. They embark on their journey, and when they come back home, failing their quest, their mother, the queen tells them that there is a notorious dragon terrorizing the village. Soon t hey realize that the dragon is their father, and they have to slay it. What will they do???!!!