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Truly Grim Tales.
Priscilla Galloway. Subject Headings:
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
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Sard would never consent to let me die to save his life. I could get along without my left arm. But it wouldn't save his life. It would not even help him to live longer unless he can figure out a process that works. Maybe I can do more for him if I keep my arm. If he runs out of meal, I'll need two arms to nurse him.
I think sometimes of what will happen when the bonemeal is gone. In my thoughts, I can get through the illness. Painfully, with horror, but I know what that would be like. I can get to the Death Palace, with the casket closed and our wedding picture on the top. I cannot get past that. I cannot imagine life after Sard.
Can you figure out which fairy tale this grim story is based on? That's
the challenge in each of the Truly Grim Tales. Each story
is based on a well-known tale by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian
Andersen, or Charles Perrault. The sanitized, "happily-ever-after"
Disney versions that have become standard fare in this part of the
century are turned upside down. Galloway takes eight traditional stories
and gives them unusual and macabre interpretations.
Recommended with reservations.
Harriet Zaidman is a Winnipeg teacher/librarian.
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The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364
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