Beware of the Wolves. The seven scariest stories of the Grimm Brothers

Fairy tales

Are Fairy Tales Really What We’ve Been Told?

Seven fairy tales to astonish. Seven fairy tales to enchant. Seven fairy tales to spellbind and keep you from sleeping soundly. A book for tough girls and boys who want to know what really happened when Little Red Riding Hood entered the forest. What the stepsisters of Cinderella did to wear the glass slipper. What was in Snow White’s magic mirror. What Hansel and Gretel endured in the witch’s house… Seven exceptionally frightening stories that tell the greatest masterpieces of the Brothers Grimm in a new way.

  • Classic fairy tales revisited to remind us that stories help us grow.
  • Seven stories that will surprise readers, whether they already know them or are reading them for the first time.
Publisher: DeA Planeta
Target: 10+
Year: 2018
Author
Davide Morosinotto

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.

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Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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