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WORK TITLE: The Inquisitor’s Tale
WORK NOTES: Newbery honor book
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BIRTHDATE: 2/14/1982
WEBSITE: http://www.adamgidwitz.com/
CITY: Brooklyn
STATE: NY
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NATIONALITY: American
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RESEARCHER NOTES:
PERSONAL
Born February 14, 1982, in San Francisco, CA; married Lauren Mancia (a history instructor at Brooklyn College).
EDUCATION:Graduated from university in New York, NY; attended Bank Street College of Education.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Author and educator. Formerly taught second grade at Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY.
AWARDS:Newbery Honor Award, 2016, for The Inquisitor’s Tale.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
“Adam Gidwitz,” wrote Grace Laidlaw in Columbia College Today, “… turns classic folklore on its ear.” His works, including the immensely popular riffs on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, A Tale Dark & Grimm, In a Glass Grimmly, and The Grimm Conclusion, introduce children to classic stories told in innovative ways. “His debut book,” Laidlaw continued, “follows two familiar characters–Hansel and Gretel–through a series of unfamiliar situations. The young protagonists run away from home, defeat a dragon and rescue a family trapped in a cave, among other adventures. Gidwitz rewrites the original Grimm stories, mixing up plot-lines and inserting a wisecracking narrator. The result is a distinctly modern fairy tale targeted toward children aged 10 and up.”
Gidwitz was working as an elementary school teacher when he began telling the stories that served as the inspiration for his first works. “During the days I was telling stories to kids at lunch and recess and story time,” Gidwitz declared in an author’s statement appearing on his eponymous Web site, the Adam Gidwitz Home Page, “and at night I was meeting writers and reading bags full of children’s books and thinking about how it all went together.” “I wrote A Tale Dark & Grimm because my students told me to,” Gidwitz told Elizabeth Bird in School Library Journal Online. “You see, I’d been asked to sub in my school’s library one day, and I needed a story to tell. So I opened up an old, musty copy of Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old and flipped around. I fell upon a tale about two children getting their heads cut off by their parents. It was a darn good story. I thought, ‘Will I get fired for this?’ And then I thought, ‘Let’s find out.’” “At the end of the story, with each group, there was profound silence,” the author continued. “And then the kids would erupt. ‘That was amazing!’ ‘Tell it again!’ ‘You should make that into a book!’ I remember that one very clearly. One third grade girl said it, and then a bunch of the others took up the cry. And I thought to myself, ‘Yeah… Yeah I should…’” “What I have learned,” Gidwitz concluded in an interview with Sue Corbett in Publishers Weekly, “is that young people are the best audience to write for by far. If I wanted to write for adults, I would have to make a decision about whether I wanted to write something funny or philosophical or write an adventure, but with kids you can write all of those things at once.”
While Hansel and Gretel serve as the protagonists of Gidwitz’s first volume, the second, In a Glass Grimmly, features Jack and Jill, and traces their escapades through versions of classic fairy tales. It is “not so much a set of retellings,” assessed a Kirkus Reviews contributor, “as a creative romp through traditional and traditionbased storyscapes, compulsively readable and just as readoutloudable.” In a Glass Grimmly, declared Erin Wyatt in Voice of Youth Advocates, “is an enjoyable, creative read rife with fairy tale violence and injury befalling the intrepid heroes and their clever, cautious, talking three-legged frog.” The novel’s “powerful stories and gradeschool humor will probably introduce Grimm fairy tales to modern children,” stated Susan Dove Lempke in Horn Book Magazine, “just as Percy Jackson has popularized Greek mythology.”
The third volume features another fairy-tale-like duo, Jorinda and Jorindal, who actually seize control of the narrative of the book as the story advances. “Despite the gleeful horror,” stated Susan Dove Lempke, writing in Horn Book Magazine, “this is ultimately a warm and empathetic novel about devotion, and it will make a great readaloud.” “This book,” wrote a Publishers Weekly reviewer, “makes it clearer than ever that Gidwitz truly cares about the kids he writes for.” “As innovative as they are traditional,” said Carol A. Edwards in School Library Journal, “the stories maintain clear connections with traditional Grimm tales while creatively connecting to the narrative.”
In his Newbery Award-winning novel The Inquisitor’s Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Gidwitz draws on medieval traditions of storytelling. His wife Lauren Mancia is a history professor at Brooklyn College, and the novelist used her expertise to tell the tale. “The first trip we ever went on together was to York, England,” Gidwitz explained to Corbett, “because she was writing a paper about some missing stained glass. I was not all that interested in the Middle Ages because, like most people probably, I thought of the [period] as remote and homogenous and boring. But I was proven wrong almost immediately on this trip, which turned out to be less a vacation than a scavenger hunt across England for this stained glass that went missing from a cathedral during World War II. And we found it!”
The Inquisitor’s Tale is a story about three children and their curiously resurrected dog who travel across medieval Europe in an attempt to escape a religious purge. “What Gidwitz … accomplishes here is staggering,” opined Soman Chainani in the New York Times Book Review. “‘The Inquisitor’s Tale’ is equal parts swashbuckling epic, medieval morality play, religious polemic and bawdy burlesque, propelling us toward a whiteknuckle climax where three children must leap into a fire to save … a Talmud. And yet, the rescue of this single book feels like higher stakes than any world-incinerating superhero battle.” “Religion lies at the book’s heart,” explained Booklist reviewer Julia Smith, “as Jewish and Christian beliefs come into conflict and the children’s potential for sainthood is debated.” “This tale speaks to tolerance and acceptance in quite an effective and relatable way,” declared Nicole Rowlinson, writing in Research Links, “particularly since the diversity of the characters will be meaningful to so many, while remaining completely authentic.” “We live in a world where religion is often used to justify hatred and violence,” the author stated in Horn Book. “Religion today, just as it was in 1242, is full of wonders and horrors. I believe children deserve to be exposed to both. They can handle it.” A Publishers Weekly reviewer called the novel a “rambunctiously entertaining story that has as much to say about the present as it does the past.” “This book appeals to the heart, to the mind, and to any reader’s appetite for action,” asserted Paula Willey in School Library Journal. “Read it.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, November 15, 2010, Ian Chipman, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, p. 49; November 15, 2013, Sarah Hunter, review of The Grimm Conclusion, p. 48; August 1, 2016, Julia Smith, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, p. 66.
Horn Book, fall, 2016, “Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Adam Gidwitz.”
Horn Book Magazine, January-February, 2011, Susan Dove Lempke, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, p. 93; November-December, 2012, Susan Dove Lempke, review of In a Glass Grimmly, p. 90; January-February, 2014, Susan Dove Lempke, review of The Grimm Conclusion, p. 91; November-December, 2016, Deirdre F. Baker, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale, p. 73; January-February, 2017, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale, p. 16.
Kirkus Reviews, October 15 2010, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm; August 15, 2012, review of In a Glass Grimmly; September 15, 2013, review of The Grimm Conclusion; September 15, 2015, review of So You Want to Be a Jedi?
New York Times, October 9, 2016, Soman Chainani, “Are the Children in This Novel Saints, or Heretics?”
Publishers Weekly, October 18, 2010, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, p. 50; November 8, 2010, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, p. 34; August 6, 2012, review of In a Glass Grimmly, p. 56; spring, 2014, “The Grimm Conclusion,” p. 77; July 11, 2016, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale, p. 69; September 27, 2016, Sue Corbett, “Q & A with Adam Gidwitz”; December 2, 2016, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale.
Resource Links, December, 2016, Nicole Rowlinson, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale, p. 11.
School Librarian, autumn, 2013, Janet Dowling, review of In a Glass Grimmly, p . 161.
School Library Journal, November, 2010, Miriam Lang Budin, review of A Tale Dark & Grimm, p. 114; October, 2012, Allison Bruce, review of In a Glass Grimmly, p. 134; December, 2013, Carol A. Edwards, review of The Grimm Conclusion, p. 113; August, 2016, Paula Willey, review of The Inquisitor’s Tale, p. 88.
Voice of Youth Advocates, December, 2012, Erin Wyatt, review of In a Glass Grimmly, p. 484.
Washington Post, September 28, 2016, Mary Quattlebaum, “Adam Gidwitz Examines Long-ago Clash of Religions in ‘The Inquisitor’s Tale.'”
ONLINE
Books 4 Boys, http://www.penguin.com/ (February 20, 2017), author profile.
Columbia College Today, https://www.college.columbia.edu/ (March/April, 2011), Grace Laidlaw, “Bookshelf: Adam Gidwitz ’04 Reinvents the Brothers Grimm.”
Disney Nerds, https://disneynerds.com/ (September 20, 2015), review of So You Want to Be a Jedi?
School Library Journal Online, http://blogs.slj.com/ (December 7, 2010), Elizabeth Bird, “WBBT Interview: Meet Adam Gidwitz. Meet Him I Say!”*
I was born in San Francisco in 1982, but moved to Baltimore when I was two and a half. I grew up there, attending a school without very many rules. Somehow, I found a way to break all of them. I spent my entire middle school career in the principal’s office. One day I will write a book and tell you about all of the ways you can be sent to the principal’s office during middle school. Maybe each chapter will be a different way to be sent to the principal’s office. There will be three hundred and forty-five thousand chapters.
Adam GidwitzI straightened myself out during high school and ended up going to college in New York City. I thought about majoring in religion, and then in philosophy, but ultimately chose English literature, because I think that the deepest truths about life tend to be written in works of fiction. Also, you can’t beat the homework in English: “You’ll like this book! And this one! Try this book, it’s amazing!”
I spent my third year of college in England. I walked around the old university town and ate beef pasties and sat in parks and read John Keats all day long. I only had to go to class twice a week, for an hour at a time. If you’re any good at math, you’ll know that that means I only had to be somewhere for two hours out of every 168. That means I was free to do whatever I wanted 166 out of every 168 hours, or 98.8% of the time. I didn’t realize it then, but it was in that year that I discovered I could be a writer–me, a beef pasty, and my imagination is all I seem to need to be happy. (My wife tells me that this is untrue. I refuse to believe her.)
After graduating, I stayed in New York and took a job in a second grade classroom at Saint Ann’s School, in Brooklyn, while attending Bank Street College of Education in the evenings. So during the days I was telling stories to kids at lunch and recess and story time, and at night I was meeting writers and reading bags full of children’s books and thinking about how it all went together. Eventually, I taught first, second, fifth, and high school at Saint Ann’s.
I spent most of 2012 living in France with my wife, who studies monks in the Middle Ages. Now, we’re back in Brooklyn. I’m writing most of the time, and traveling around the US, visiting schools, the rest of the time. Want to find me? Click here!
Q & A with Adam Gidwitz
By Sue Corbett | Sep 27, 2016
It’s no exaggeration to say that Adam Gidwitz’s new novel, The Inquisitor’s Tale, was hundreds of years in the making (although it “only” took him six years to write). Gidwitz, who gave the willies to many young readers with his A Tale Dark and Grimm series, reaches back to the Middle Ages for the legends and lore on which to base his latest story, a quest starring three exceptional, persecuted children, an incredible dog, and a dragon who kills with flatulence. He spoke with PW about his inspiration, his process, and the debt he owes his wife.
Your author’s note begins, “My interest in the Middle Ages is entirely my wife’s fault.” Want to explain?
Yes. We met in college in a class on Chaucer. Initially, we were both English majors but she was concentrating on medieval literature and eventually she switched to history [Gidwitz’s wife, Lauren Mancia, now teaches medieval history at Brooklyn College], which she had always been interested in. In fact, the first trip we ever went on together was to York, England, because she was writing a paper about some missing stained glass. I was not all that interested in the Middle Ages because, like most people probably, I thought of the [period] as remote and homogenous and boring. But I was proven wrong almost immediately on this trip, which turned out to be less a vacation than a scavenger hunt across England for this stained glass that went missing from a cathedral during World War II. And we found it! It had been put into small churches [for safekeeping] during the war. So, immediately there was this Indiana Jones aspect to medieval history that hooked me, and since we wound up traveling to Europe every year, eventually I began to wonder if I could get a book out of it. I started trying to organize the stories I had collected about six years ago.
You also mention in your author’s note that reading a plaque at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris was a turning point in your decision to create a novel from your travelogue.
Yes. This plaque described the burning of the Talmuds in Paris in 1242 by King Louis IX. These were handwritten manuscripts, books that must have taken years and years to make, written on animal hides that had been tanned and bound together by hand. Louis had ordered the collection of all the Talmuds in existence in France at the time and had them burned. More than 20,000 volumes were destroyed. I was knocked out for days emotionally thinking about what an inconceivable loss that was. From that, the idea that there would be someone who would do something to prevent the burning, or at least try to save some of the books, grew into the idea for the novel. I already had a lot of material.
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Another experience that switched me from just enjoying our travels to turning them into something was seeing the Bayeux Tapestry, which is like this 270 foot long graphic novel about the Norman Invasion sewn by a group of nuns in 1070 that depicts all these incredible scenes, including the [scene depicted in The Inquisitor’s Tale] where the knights sink into the quicksand outside Mont Saint-Michel. After I saw that, every place we went became a potential setting for another scene. That was the easy part.
What was the hard part?
I wrote for a long time without really knowing what the grand quest of the book was. I gave the first draft to Laura Amy Schlitz [the Newbery Medalist for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village was Gidwitz’s school librarian] because she has expertise in medieval literature and because she’s a great storyteller. She was very complimentary and very encouraging but both she and my editor [Julie Strauss-Gabel] had a lot of comments for me.
Did you ever consider, given the subject matter, that what you were writing wasn’t a novel for young readers?
No, not really. There were certainly moments when I got scared. When I wondered, will anybody read this? But what I have learned is that young people are the best audience to write for by far. If I wanted to write for adults, I would have to make a decision about whether I wanted to write something funny or philosophical or write an adventure, but with kids you can write all of those things at once.
You mention in your acknowledgments that this book produced the “most tempestuous and intense editing process yet” with your editor. Can you expound on that a little?
It was intense. It was serious. I’m going to tell you the truth. She read the first draft and said, “Where’s the rest?,” and I said, “Maybe I’ll write a sequel,” and she said: “No. You need to tell the entire story in this book.” At that time, the story was being told in this sort of floating, omniscient third-person narrator and she felt it wasn’t working. It was the same story but it was a slow, flaccid version of the story. So [Julie] and I had a series of conversations where she basically told me, “You learned a lot of these stories as stories. Someone told them to you. You told me the story of the Holy Greyhound. You told me the story about the farting dragons. Why can’t you just tell me those stories again?”
Basically, I felt like she was asking me to write A Tale Dark and Grimm again and I think what I was trying to do was make sure I didn’t write another story like the ones I had already written. But her argument was, “Just because you’re a good storyteller doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer.” She put her finger right on what I was trying to do – something different than Grimm. But by doing that, I was not only getting away from my strength, I was getting away from my passion. So I rewrote the book by setting it in a tavern, and it became tales told, like Chaucer, by different voices. When you’re telling a story in a tavern, you don’t have time to go on long dispositions. You’ll lose your audience. So that structure worked for me.
Gosh, is it okay to say I think she was right?
Make sure you put in there that she was right. She’s pretty much always right.
When in your research you came across the legend of the farting dragon, did you drop to your knees and thank the writing gods?
Yes, I did. When I heard that story, I knew it had to be part of the book. I mean, what could be more me than a farting dragon that kills people by sitting on them? And the holy dog, too. That is a legend, too, and that had to be in the book.
But did you think that the farting dragon and the miraculous dog also could be used to leaven some of the much heavier elements of the plot? Because this is ambitious territory you took on – religious intolerance in the Middle Ages for fifth graders.
Absolutely. What I have found is that when you are writing for kids, you can be as ambitious as you want because kids love engaging with difficult topics, but you have got to figure out a way to get them to read every page. Once they’re reading, once they’re into it, then I can do something interesting and challenging and those readers will be glad I did.
When you got to the editing stage, did you get called out for anachronisms? Was it hard to stop your modern sensibilities from seeping into 13th-century France?
Yes. But my wife was really great at enlisting scholars she knows to check my work. They picked up on both larger things and smaller things.
For instance?
Well, one thing was that I had two monks with beards. Monks were not supposed to have beards. So one monk with a beard I might be able to get away with, but not two.
The adults who have read the novel love it – you have four starred reviews so far. Have you had any actual kid readers yet?
I have, and I am so relieved and excited by the response I’ve gotten from the few kids who have already gotten their hands on it [Gidwitz posted a letter about the book from a young fan to his Twitter account]. I have been going to schools in advance of the book coming out. I describe what scapegoating is, giving examples from history. Among the fifth, sixth, and seventh graders I’ve been talking with, I’d say nine out of 10 times, somebody on their own has raised the issue of how it relates to contemporary politics and how certain politicians have tried to blame Mexicans and Muslims for larger problems. They draw their own conclusions.
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz. Dutton, $17.99 Sept. 27 ISBN 978-0-525-42616-5
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Set in thirteenth-century France, Adam Gidwitz’s The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, illustrated by Hatem Aly, follows three outlaw miracle-performing children — a peasant Christian girl, a Jewish boy, and a young brown-skinned monk whose mother was Muslim — as they elude their many enemies.
1. Is the riff on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales intentional?
AG: The book is chock-full of medieval references — including to The Canterbury Tales. But the sources go far beyond Chaucer, from The Golden Legend, a collection of saints’ lives (my source for the dragon of the deadly farts) to the diary of a real thirteenth-century inquisitor (the source for the holy dog).
2. Were you also inspired by any classic children’s books? (I’m seeing shades of Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three and even The Wizard of Oz.)
AG: Whereas the medieval references are entirely intentional, references to other children’s books aren’t. But I once wrote a letter to John le Carré, and his letter back said, “As a fellow writer, you know that we invent everything we write, even if someone has done it before.”
gidwitz_inquisitors-tale3. The revelation of the identity of the narrator is quite a twist. Was that always the narrator you had in mind?
AG: Six years ago, when I started imagining this book, I came up with the narrator and that twist. But I didn’t think I could pull it off, and I worked on a number of drafts using an omniscient, third-person narrator. Only in the year before publication did I decide to take the risk and put the story back into his hands.
4. You balance the adventure and humor with the larger themes such as religious tolerance so well. How did you find the right mix?
AG: I was a teacher for eight years, and my philosophy in the classroom was “serious fun.” Kids want to be challenged to grow, but they also want to laugh and be scared and grossed out. They are hungry for the full panoply of life. That’s what I’ve tried to give them.
5. Religion is one of the last taboos of children’s literature. What made you take it on?
AG: My wife’s specialty is medieval Christianity; together we have been building a Jewish home. We live in a world where religion is often used to justify hatred and violence. Religion today, just as it was in 1242, is full of wonders and horrors. I believe children deserve to be exposed to both. They can handle it. As long as it’s served with a healthy helping of farting dragons.
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In 1242 France, weary travelers at an inn trade stories about three miraculous children and their dog, Gwenforte, who
has returned from the dead. The childrenJeanne, a peasant girl who has visions of the future; William, an oblate of
partial African heritage with uncanny strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy with the power to heal the sick and injuredare
the subject of much rumor and debate. Are they saints, frauds, or in league with the devil? Gidwitz (the Grimm trilogy)
continues to toy with narrative in a wellresearched and rambunctiously entertaining story that has as much to say about
the present as it does the past. Evoking the oral storytelling traditions of the time, multiple characters including a nun,
troubadour, and brewer alternately describe their encounters with the children to produce the whole story. Amid mugs
upon mugs of ale, the tale that comes into focus is one of religious persecution and faith, friendships that transcend
difference, and a dangerously flatulent dragonGidwitz continues to have no problem mixing high and low. Final art
not seen by PW. Ages 10up.
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Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Nicole Rowlinson
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GIDWITZ, Adam
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Illustrated by Hatem Aly.
Dutton Book for Young Readers, 2016.
363p. Gr. 510. 9780525426165.
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For the few who haven't already read all of the rave reviews for this epic tale, it is the story of three children and their
backfromthedead dog Gwenforte, who are on the run from agents of the Inquisition in medieval France (under King
Louis IX) in 1242.
When Jeanne, a young Christian peasant girl with apparent psychic powers, is forced to flee her home, she encounters
two very different young menJacob, a Jewish boy with mysterious healing powers, and William, a hulking biracial
monkintraining. While the children are heralded as saints by some, they were driven from their homes by rigid
Christians who believe they have the devil in them. Together, the three children and Gwenforte become essentially
France's most wanted, as they fight against religious intolerance, classism, and racism, as well as their violent pursuers.
Readers will connect to Jeanne, William, and Jacob, as they exhibit traits, desires, and fears that are very relatable. This
tale speaks to tolerance and acceptance in quite an effective and relatable way, particularly since the diversity of the
characters will be meaningful to so many, while remaining completely authentic. These children are truly inspirational
in their quest to fight against ignorance and stand up for their beliefs and human rights, all while creating a very deep
bond with each other.
Gidwitz (author of A Tale Dark and Grimm) has penned an engrossing adventure that is clearly a meticulously
researched medieval historical fiction, blended with humour and exceptional storytelling. The intensely descriptive
passages featuring forests, palaces, and monasteries combine with Hatem Aly's exquisite illuminations to bring this
remarkable medieval masterpiece to life. Told chapter by chapter by various travellers at an inn, the multiplenarrator
format adds intriguing voices and complexities.
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The inclusion of a fascinating and informative author's note, as well as a comprehensive annotated bibliography, are
wonderful features for those seeking further history.
Thematic Links: French Inquisition; Medieval France; Middle Ages; Religious Intolerance; Persecution; Jews;
Muslims; Christianity; Fantasy Stories; Adventure Stories.
[E] Excellent, enduring, everyone should see it!
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Deirdre F. Baker
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An ambitious mashup of medieval saints' lives, the Joan of Arc legend, thirteenthcentury French history, and elements
of The Canterbury Tales, Gidwitz's hopeful story of interreligious understanding is more fantasy than historical fiction.
Three children with marvelous abilities band together and draw the ire of King Louis IX. Peasant Jeanne has visions of
the future; William, illegitimate son of a crusader knight and an African "Saracen," has supernatural strength; Jacob, a
learned Jewish boy, has healing powers. Together they try to thwart King Louis's plan to burn all the Jewish texts in
France, and thus the trio becomes the object of a countrywide hunt. Drinking together at an inn, an inquisitor, nun,
Jewish butcher, jongleur, and several others relate the bits of the children's adventure they knowa series of "tales" that
make a single narrative. The historical improbabilities of the story are many (and seemingly intentional), but its
qualities as miracle tale tip readers to its fantastical nature (witness the episode of "the dragon with deadly farts").
Gidwitz presents moral issues that are currently relevant, and gives several theological arguments about good and evil a
brisk, accessible airing. Scatological humor, serious matter, colloquial presentday language, the ideal of diversity and
mutual understandingthis has it all.
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not indicate a possible discount to libraries. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.
* indicates a book that the editors believe to be an outstanding example of its genre, of books of this particular
publishing season, or of the author's body of work.
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th Edition)
Baker, Deirdre F. "The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog." The Horn Book
Magazine, Nov.Dec. 2016, p. 73. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical
Children and Their Holy Dog
Publishers Weekly.
263.28 (July 11, 2016): p69.
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* The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Aly. Dutton, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 9780525426165
In 1242 France, weary travelers at an inn trade stories about three miraculous children and their dog, Gwenforte, who
has returned from the dead. The childrenJeanne, a peasant girl who has visions of the future; William, an oblate of
partial African heritage with uncanny strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy with the power to heal the sick and injuredare
the subject of much rumor and debate. Are they saints, frauds, or in league with the devil? Gidwitz (the Grimm trilogy)
continues to toy with narrative in a wellresearched and rambunctiously entertaining story that has as much to say about
the present as it does the past. Evoking the oral storytelling traditions of the time, multiple characters including a nun,
troubadour, and brewer alternately describe their encounters with the children to produce the whole story. Amid mugs
upon mugs of ale, the tale that comes into focus is one of religious persecution and faith, friendships that transcend
difference, and a dangerously flatulent dragonGidwitz continues to have no problem mixing high and low. Final art
not seen by PW. Ages 10up. Author's agent: Sarah Burnes, Gernert Company. (Sept.)
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
"The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog." Publishers Weekly, 11 July 2016, p. 69.
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The Inquisitor's Tale; or, The Three Magical
Children and Their Holy Dog
Julia Smith
Booklist.
112.22 (Aug. 1, 2016): p66.
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* The Inquisitor's Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog. By Adam Gidwitz. Illus. by Hatem Aly.
Sept. 2016.384p. Dutton, $17.99 (9780525426165). Gr. 58.
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Gidwitz leaves the fairytale realm of his Grimm trilogy behind and plunges into medieval France to tell the incredible
story of three gifted children, a holy greyhound, and the people whose lives they touch. It is a time of miracles and
saints, of fiends and dragons, all of which Gidwitz has meticulously teased from legends and histories of the Middle
Ages. The story is relayed in the style of The Canterbury Tales, as travelers gathered at an inn share what they know of
the children: Jeanne, a peasant girl with visions of the future; William, an African oblate with incredible strength;
Jacob, a Jewish boy with healing powers; not to mention Gwenforte, their guardian greyhound. Religion lies at the
book's heart, as Jewish and Christian beliefs come into conflict and the children's potential for sainthood is debated. It
also triggers an act of defiance against the king that makes the miraculous threesome the most wanted people in France.
Ten different narrators lend their voices to the taleincluding a brewster, nun, butcher, librarian, and troubadourwhile
drinking a fair amount of ale, resulting in a boisterous, conversational tone. Gidwitz proves himself a nimble storyteller
as he weaves history, excitement, and multiple narrative threads into a taut, inspired adventure. Though final artwork
was unseen, the book will be fittingly illuminated with illustrations and marginalia. Julia Smith
[HD] HIGHDEMAND BACKSTORY: The work put into the physical book should tell you the publisher's belief in
bestseller Gidwitz's latest. Also: the national tour, the floor display, and all that.
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Smith, Julia. "The Inquisitor's Tale; or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog." Booklist, 1 Aug. 2016, p.
66+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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The Grimm Conclusion
Publishers Weekly.
261 (Spring 2014): p77.
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The Grimm Conclusion
Adam Gidwitz. Dutton, $16.99 ISBN 9780525426158
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and Gidwitz deploys his successful formula of bloody happenings and narratorial intrusion
in his third and final installment of unexpurgated fairy tales. The protagonists are Jorinda and Joringel, who go through
hairraising and stomachchurning travails similar to those of their predecessors, Hansel and Gretel (in A Tale Dark &
Grimm) and Jack and Jill (from In a Glass Grimmly); there are even a few cameo appearances by characters from the
earlier books. Among the sources this time are "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty," lesserknown tales such as "The
Juniper Tree" and "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Fear," and a few nonGrimm tales. Reflecting his love of theory,
Gidwitz takes an excursion into metafiction near the end that highlights the power of story, one of two key themes,
along with the folly of repressing one's feelings. Underneath the gore, the wit, and the trips to Hell and back, this book
makes it clearer than ever that Gidwitz truly cares about the kids he writes for. Ages 10up.
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
"The Grimm Conclusion." Publishers Weekly, Spring 2014, p. 77. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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The Grimm Conclusion
Susan Dove Lempke
The Horn Book Magazine.
90.1 (JanuaryFebruary 2014): p91.
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The Grimm Conclusion
by Adam Gidwitz
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Readers of Gidwitz's previous two books (A Tale Dark & Grimm, rev. 1/11; In a Glass Grimmly, rev. 11/12) will not be
surprised that the sister and brother in this story both endure terrible adventures, including death. From the beginning,
when Jorinda and Joringel's wicked stepfather first tricks Jorinda into thinking she has decapitated her brother, then
prepares a stew from the boy's flesh, this is gruesome, grisly, grim fun. Gidwitz works his two main characters into
several different folktales including "Ashputtle" (a Cinderella variant) and "Sleeping Beauty." An omniscient narrator
comments throughout, offering warnings, consolation, and explanations. It's not until Jorinda and Joringel visit the
narrator in person in his Brooklyn classroom that the siblings, who have been tamping down their feelings of
helplessness and anger, learn the importance of expressing their emotions and telling their stories. This volume is filled
with metafictive references to the previous books and their characters; it also introduces some entertaining new
characters, from a terrifying ogre named Malchizedek and a dimwitted prince to three ravens who offer their own arch
commentary on events. Despite the gleeful horror, this is ultimately a warm and empathetic novel about devotion, and it
will make a great readaloud to groups that can handle the gore.
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Lempke, Susan Dove
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th Edition)
Lempke, Susan Dove. "The Grimm Conclusion." The Horn Book Magazine, Jan.Feb. 2014, p. 91. General OneFile,
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The Grimm Conclusion
Sarah Hunter
Booklist.
110.6 (Nov. 15, 2013): p48.
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The Grimm Conclusion. By Adam Gidwitz. 2013.368p. Dutton, $16.99 (9780525426158). Gr. 47.
In this final entry in Gidwitz's trilogy, the author once again mashes together unsugarcoated versions of classic fairy
tales. Twins Jorinda and Joringel suffer gruesome fates at the hands of their stepfathernaturallybut that's only the
beginning. Once they dispatch him, they stumble into other wellknown fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Sleeping
Beauty, as well as some less familiar stories, like The Juniper Tree. The metafictional approach can get distracting;
along with regular interactions with the reader, Gidwitz eventually shares a pizza with, and reads his previous two
novels to, Jorinda and Joringel. But interested readers won't be there for the narrative structure. No, they'll show up for
the awesomely dark stories, full of beheadings, corpses, tyrants, murder, and terrible adults who treat children awfully
until those children are empowered to fight back, taking the narrative power into their own hands to tell the stories with
the happy endings they want to hear. Fans of the series will eagerly pore over this volume, which can comfortably stand
on its own.Sarah Hunter
Hunter, Sarah
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Hunter, Sarah. "The Grimm Conclusion." Booklist, 15 Nov. 2013, p. 48+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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Gidwitz, Adam. In a Glass Grimmly
Erin Wyatt
Voice of Youth Advocates.
35.5 (Dec. 2012): p484.
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Gidwitz, Adam. In a Glass Grimmly. Illus. by Hugh D'Andrade. Dutton/Penguin, 2012. 192p. $16.99. 9780525
425816.
This companion to A Tale Dark & Grimm (Dutton, 2010) echoes the tone and style of the earlier installment as it
follows Jack and Jill on their adventures. While the duo falls down a hill and Jack has a serious head injury, much more
awaits the two cousins as they try to find happiness through acceptance. Feeling dejected, the cousins take on a quest
for a valuable lost glass in exchange for the fulfillment of their deepest desires upon the return of the item. They swear
on their lives, and are off on a harrowing, humorous journey. Interjecting throughout, the narrator has an active role,
warning of gore and violence ahead, all the while reminding the readers that the true stories behind the popular fairy
tales they have heard are the ones unfolding on the pages of the book.
Gidwitz pulls from many fairy tales, including Jack and the Beanstalk, The Frog Prince, and The Emperor's New
Clothes, to weave his story together and makes up some lore of his own along the way. It is an enjoyable, creative read
rife with fairy tale violence and injury befalling the intrepid heroes and their clever, cautious, talking threelegged frog
sidekick. The adults in this novel are not kind or loving, leaving the children to their own devices. Ultimately, the
cousins find happiness in themselves and each other as they learn to really see themselves.
Wyatt, Erin
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Wyatt, Erin. "Gidwitz, Adam. In a Glass Grimmly." Voice of Youth Advocates, Dec. 2012, p. 484. General OneFile,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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In a Glass Grimmly
Susan Dove Lempke
The Horn Book Magazine.
88.6 (NovemberDecember 2012): p90.
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permitted.
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In a Glass Grimmly
by Adam Gidwitz
Intermediate, Middle School Dutton 320 pp.
9/12 9780525425816 $16.99
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This companion volume to A Tale Dark & Grimm (rev. 1/11) features more macabre and humorous "once upon a time"
takeoffs. Princess Jill is the daughter of a very beautiful but selfish queen; her cousin Jack lives in the village and longs
to play with the other boys, who just laugh at him. After Jill has a humiliating experience involving a dress made of
cloth that no one will admit they can't see, she joins up with Jack and a frog and they set off on a lifeordeath quest to
find the "seeing glass." Along the way they encounter goblins, mermaids, and a terrible monster named Eidechse von
Feuer, der Menschenfleischfressende, each time outwitting what appears to be certain death; in a spectacularly bloody
and funny scene, they also face giants in the sky (as the narrator warns, "What follows is the most disgusting thing I
have ever heard"). Gidwitz masterfully threads his lore and his characters together, coming at last to a satisfying
conclusion. A closing note explains his source material, drawn from Grimm, Andersen, Mother Goose, and even
Christina Rossetti and the New Testament. The book somehow manages to be gory, hilarious, touching, and lyrical all
at once, with tons of kid appeal.
Lempke, Susan Dove
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Lempke, Susan Dove. "In a Glass Grimmly." The Horn Book Magazine, Nov.Dec. 2012, p. 90+. General OneFile,
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Gidwitz, Adam: IN A GLASS GRIMMLY
Kirkus Reviews.
(Aug. 15, 2012):
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Gidwitz, Adam IN A GLASS GRIMMLY Dutton (Children's Fiction) $16.99 9, 27 ISBN: 9780525425816
The author of A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010) starts oversending young Jack and Jill on a fresh quest for selfknowledge
through trials and incidents drawn (stolen, according to the author) from a diverse array of European folk
and fairy tales. Foolishly pledging their lives on finding the longlost Seeing Glass, cousins Jack and Jill, with a threelegged
talking frog to serve as the nowrequisite comical animal sidekick, set out from the kingdom of
M�;rchen. They climb a beanstalk, visit a goblin market and descend into a firebelching salamander's lair
(and then down its gullet). In a chamber of bones ("It gave new meaning to the term rib vaulting"), they turn the tables
on a trio of tricksy child eaters. Injecting authorial warnings and commentary as he goes, Gidwitz ensures that each
adventure involves at least severe embarrassment or, more commonly, sudden death, along with smacking great washes
of gore, vomit and (where appropriate) stomach acid. Following hard tests of wit and courage, the two adventurers,
successful in both ostensible and real quests, return to tell their tales to rapt children (including one named "Hans
Christian," and another "Joseph," or "J.J.") and even, in the end, mend relations with their formerly selfabsorbed
parents. Not so much a set of retellings as a creative romp through traditional and traditionbased storyscapes,
compulsively readable and just as readoutloudable. (source note) (Fantasy. 1114)
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
"Gidwitz, Adam: IN A GLASS GRIMMLY." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Aug. 2012. General OneFile,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA299605502&it=r&asid=80660fcf922796dbf57bdcdb1cdbf9e7.
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In a Glass Grimmly
Publishers Weekly.
259.32 (Aug. 6, 2012): p56.
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* In a Glass Grimmly
Adam Gidwitz. Dutton, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 9780525425816
The grossness quotient has gone up in Gidwitz's companion to A Tale Dark and Grimm, his grisly reimagining of
classic fairy tales. Translation: this second foray is even more enjoyable than the author's acclaimed debut. The
protagonists in this installment are Jack, Jill, and a talking frog, whose adventures begin separately in reworkings of
"The Frog Prince" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," before the three join forces in "Jack and the Beanstalk." Parental
cruelties are more ordinary this timemockery, neglect, and recrimination but what the children find in their quest for
the Seeing Glass is horrifying enough to compensate for any perceived softness at the outset. When Jill rescues Jack
atop the beanstalk by accepting the giants' eating challenge, even the Monty Python gang might cringe at the results
it's the phrase "no guts, no glory" brought to Technicolor life. Gidwitz can do nuance, too, as Jill's perilous encounter
with a sympathetic mermaid demonstrates. Technically polished, and with more original content, this romp has lost
none of the edge of its predecessor. Ages 10up. Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. (Sept.)
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
"In a Glass Grimmly." Publishers Weekly, 6 Aug. 2012, p. 56. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA299061741&it=r&asid=8445d99eb8869c0a7e20ebf51b2dad0f.
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A Tale Dark & Grimm
Susan Dove Lempke
The Horn Book Magazine.
87.1 (JanuaryFebruary 2011): p93.
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permitted.
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A Tale Dark & Grimm
by Adam Gidwitz
Intermediate, Middle School Dutton 251 pp.
11/10 9780525423348 $16.99 g
Instead of the ofttried technique of expanding a single Grimms' fairy tale into a novel, Gidwitz takes several tales and
weaves them together into one darkly humorous chapter book starring Hansel and Gretel. The brother and sister are two
of the unluckiest children ever, as they fall into the clutches of a succession of terrible grownups, from their father who
cuts off their heads to the baker woman who wants to eat them, and even the devil himself. In the bloodiest and most
terrifying story, Gretel falls in love with a handsome young man who lures her to his home in the woods where he daily
hacks young women to pieces for dinner. The author introduces the stories and interrupts them periodically in passages
set off in bold type, speaking directly to the reader in a deliberately modern and informal tone: "I'm sorry. I wish I could
have skipped this part. I really do. Gretel cutting off her own finger?" The commentary can occasionally feel grating,
but the combination of powerful stories and gradeschool humor will probably introduce Grimm fairy tales to modern
children just as Percy Jackson has popularized Greek mythology.
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not indicate a possible discount to libraries. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.
Lempke, Susan Dove
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Lempke, Susan Dove. "A Tale Dark & Grimm." The Horn Book Magazine, Jan.Feb. 2011, p. 93+. General OneFile,
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A Tale Dark & Grimm
Ian Chipman
Booklist.
107.6 (Nov. 15, 2010): p49.
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A Tale Dark & Grimm.
By Adam Gidwitz.
Nov. 2010. 256p. Dutton, $16.99 (9780525423348). Gr. 47.
As if Hansel and Gretel didn't already have it tough in their original fairy tale, Gidwitz retrofits a handful of other
obscure Grimm stories and casts the siblings as heroes. Connecting the dots, he crafts a narrative that has the twins
beheaded (and reheaded, thankfully), dismembered, hunted, killed, brought back to life, sent to hell, and a number of
other terrible fates en route to their happily ever after. Some adults will blanch at the way Gidwitz merrily embraces the
gruesomeness prevalent in the original tales, but kids won't mind a bit, and they'll get some laughs out of the way he
intrudes on the narrative ("This is when things start to get, well ... awesome. But in a horrible, bloody kind of way").
The author also snarkily comments on the themes, sometimes a bit too heavyhandedly. "Ihe question many readers
might have about the Grimms' tales is perfectly pondered by the longsuffering twins: "Are there no good grownups
anymore?" Not in these forests, kiddos.Ian Chipman
Chipman, Ian
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
Chipman, Ian. "A Tale Dark & Grimm." Booklist, 15 Nov. 2010, p. 49+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Publishers Weekly.
257.44 (Nov. 8, 2010): p34.
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz (Dutton)
Gidwitz debuts with a deliciously twisted reworking of Grimm's fairy tales that casts Hansel and Gretel in lead roles in
several other stories, as they seek a perfect (or even just "nice") family. Quite gory and quite funny, Gidwitz's expertly
engineered collection has heart, too, and is all but certain to reignite readers' interest in the source material.
Source Citation (MLA 8
th Edition)
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A Tale Dark and Grimm
Publishers Weekly.
257.41 (Oct. 18, 2010): p50.
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* A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz. Dutton, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 9780525423348
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Hansel and Gretel actually had their heads chopped off. Who knew? If that statement sends you scrambling for your
favorite search engine, Gidwitz is savoring that reaction. And for readers who shriek with bloodthirsty delight, not
skepticism, he has much more in store. Fracturing the folk tales of the Brothers Grimm, Gidwitz brings together old and
new traditions of matteroffact horror. Hansel and Gretel become recurring characters in reworked versions of the
Grimms' lesserknown tales, such as "Faithful Johannes" and "The Seven Ravens" (here, "The Seven Swallows"). The
children are seeking a "nice" family after their father, no woodcutter but a king, pulls the aforementioned beheading
stunt ("[T]hey believed firmly in their little hearts that parents should not kill their children"). The perfect family proves
elusive, and the children must extricate themselves from one outrageous situation after anotherincluding, yes, a
hungry old woman in an edible house. The rhythms and rhetoric of the prose are heavily influenced by verbal
storytelling, which can on occasion strike a false note, but mostly add the intended wry wink to an audacious debut
that's wicked smart and wicked funny. Ages 10up. (Nov.)
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Gidwitz, Adam:
Kirkus Reviews.
(Oct. 15, 2010):
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Gidwitz, Adam A TALE DARK & GRIMM Dutton (Adult Fiction) $16.99 11, 1 ISBN: 9780525423348
Fairy tales for the horror set blend themselves into one intact thread that's satisfying enough to overcome an intrusive
narrator. The storyteller's voice (presented in bold type) opens by asserting that original Grimm tales are "awesome,"
"violent and ... bloody," while "all the versions of the stories you've heard [are]... mindnumbingly boring" due to
sanitization. It's an odd premise for a piece whose audience is surely aware of many fractured fairy tales that are dark
and/or awesome. The narrator contributes unnecessary platitudes, but on the plus side, savvily warns when little kids
should leave the room, effectively cautioning big kids that upcoming content is sad or gory—and it really is.
Heads are lopped off, blood flows, men reach down girls' throats and pull out their souls. Old Grimm tales and
Gidwitz's original additions weave together into one arc, with fiercely loyal siblings Hansel and Gretel at the heart. The
narrator's presence lessens; action and emotion deepen; funny grossouts pop up amid serious violence; and everything
builds to one painful and triumphant catharsis. (Fractured fairy tale. 1013)
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th Edition)
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Gidwitz, Adam. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the
Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Paula Willey
School Library Journal.
62.8 (Aug. 2016): p88.
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* GIDWITZ, Adam. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog. illus. by Hatem Aly.
384p. Dutton. Sept. 2016. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780525426165.
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Gr 510What is a miracle? Is a miracle what happens when, faced with murderous bandits, a teenage monk rips a leg
off his donkey, beats them to death with it, then restores the donkey's leg? Or is it a miracle when a cranky innkeeper is
so moved by a little girl's friendliness that he risks his life to help her and her companions flee a posse of armed
knights? Maybe the real miracle happens when readers attracted to the action and violence a particular author is known
for find themselves strongly invested in the moral questions that plague banditkilling monk and friendly peasant girl
alikealong with every other character they encounter, from a young minstrel/pickpocket to Louis IX. Gidwitz's tale of
medieval France successfully combines the epic with the personal, aiming for that heartstopping moment when
characters readers have come to care about find themselves on a collision course with one of the great wood chippers of
historythe Inquisition, agents of which are in hot pursuit of three underdog characters (and one actual dog) from the
very start. It is left to the titular Inquisitor to discover the truth behind the legends that quickly rise to surround these
kids. He nudges it from each of the travelers at a roadside inn, the narrative tension rising as each facet is revealed.
VERDICT This book appeals to the heart, to the mind, and to any reader's appetite for action: read it for the thrilling
escapes, the fart jokes, the stinky cheese, and the palace intrigue. Read it for the Talmudic wisdom, commonsense
philosophies, and moments of doubt. Read it for the palaces and monasteries and the unbelievable descriptions of food.
But read it.Paula Willey, Baltimore County Public Library, Towson
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Gidwitz, Adam. The Grimm Conclusion
Carol A. Edwards
School Library Journal.
59.12 (Dec. 2013): p113.
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9781101612552. LC 2013021686.
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Gr 48The conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010) and continued with In a Glass
Grimmly (2012, both Dutton) is equally gorey and awesomely dark. Jumping outside nonnal book conventions,
Gidwitz not only relies on the previously recounted horror, but he also embraces and integrates it into the plot. "The
third raven blinked at the little boy. 'The metafictional dimensions of that statement are kind of blowing my mind.'"
Fans of these gruesome tales will not blink an eye, and newcomers are more likely to return to the previous titles to
catch up than to find the references offputting. The assured voice of the storyteller continues to be distinctive and
clearly indicated by the bold type. Jorinda and Joringel, main characters in these adventures, gradually take on this
storyteller role, upending the expected, and provide a satisfying conclusion while extolling the power of story. As
innovative as they are traditional, the stories maintain clear connections with traditional Grimm tales while creatively
connecting to the narrative, and all the while keeping the proceedings undeniably grisly and lurid. Gidwitz includes a
note regarding the sources of his stories, which are not just Grimm, but also include Peter Dickinson, Hans Christian
Andersen, Eric Kimmel, and his own fertile imagination. Readers will rejoice.Carol A. Edwards, Denver Public
Library, CO
Edwards, Carol A.
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SO YOU WANT TO BE A JEDI?
From the "Star Wars" series, volume 2
by Adam Gidwitz
Age Range: 8 - 12
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Gidwitz turns to second-person narration in his retelling of The Empire Strikes Back.
In an author’s note, this reteller of fairy tales explains that a certain type of protagonist—Luke, for instance—has a fairly empty characterization, enabling readers to “inhabit” the hero. This sets up the novel’s proper introduction, in which the narrator directly addresses readers who wish to become Jedis, explaining that simply telling Luke’s story isn’t enough and that they “need, for the duration of this story, to become Luke.” Substituting “you” for Luke, Gidwitz proceeds with his story. After fleeing a discovered rebel base, Luke follows a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi to the swamp planet Dagobah, where the Jedi Master Yoda lives. There, Gidwitz takes advantage of the novel’s format to allow readers to share Luke’s frustration with Yoda’s emphasis on patience. Meanwhile, in conventionally narrated chapters, Leia, Han, and the gang engage in daring exploits to evade Darth Vader only to be betrayed by Han’s old friend, Lando. Vader uses them to set a trap for Luke, who, still so early in his training, is not ready to face the full force of the dark side, resulting in a major blow to the heroes. In between chapters, the narrator instructs readers in various Jedi training meditation exercises; sometimes they detract from the story’s rhythm, but generally they’re decent fun.
An enthusiastic, mostly successful experiment to make old new again. (Science fantasy. 8-12)
Pub Date: Sept. 22nd, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4847-0914-6
Page count: 336pp
Publisher: Disney Lucasfilm
Review Posted Online: Sept. 5th, 2015
So You Want to Be A Jedi? (spoiler-free book review)
What is it like to be a Jedi? If you read Adam Gidwitz’ retelling of the classic The Empire Strikes Back, you’ll definitely have some idea – or you just might turn out to be Jedi material. Adam was tapped by the folks at Disney Press to write the second installment of the original Star Wars trilogy for a new generation. Each author in the series put their own twist on the Star Wars universe, and Adam was no different. Alexandra Bracken told the story of A New Hope from the point of view of Leia, Han, and Luke in The Princess, The Scoundrel, and The Farm Boy. Tom Angleberger told the story of Return of the Jedi from a narrator’s point of view in his take on Return of the Jedi titled Beware the Power of The Dark Side! And Adam told the story largely from YOUR point of view – well if you were Luke Skywalker.
So You Want to Be A Jedi? - a retelling of the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back
So You Want to Be A Jedi? – a retelling of the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back
Title: So You Want to Be A Jedi?
Author: Adam Gidwitz
Cost: $17.99
Age: 8-12 (it’s recommended for this age group but every Star Wars fan will love this book)
Publisher: Disney Lucasfilm Press
Genre: Star Wars, fiction
Are the Children in This
Novel Saints, or
Heretics?
Children’s Books
By SOMAN CHAINANI OCT. 7, 2016
THE INQUISITOR’S TALE
Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
By Adam Gidwitz
Illustrated by Hatem Aly
363 pp. Dutton. $17.99. (Middle grade; ages 10 and up)
“Where Did This Story Come From?”
That’s the title of the engaging, insightful and moving author’s note to Adam
Gidwitz’s “The Inquisitor’s Tale” — which I wish Gidwitz had not included. Because
the novel alone, in the greatest of its many feats, tells us not just where this story
comes from, but where all the best stories come from: an inquisitor chasing a tale
deeper and deeper, closer and closer to the fire.
The inquisitor, in this case, is a mysterious traveler in the year 1242 who arrives
at a crowded inn north of Paris, seeking news of three children wanted by the king.
Who are these children? Why would the king of France send his army after them?
The inquisitor craves answers, and the townspeople, fueled by gossip and ale, are
happy to oblige, each taking turns to hijack the narrative. Unlike the case of “The
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Canterbury Tales,” which fishes from a pool of unrelated characters, here every tale
propels the plot forward, revealing a composite of the three children: Jeanne, a
peasant girl stricken with visions of the future; William, a biracial young monk with
superhuman strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy who can heal the wounded and sick.
(Accompanying them is a holy dog named Gwenforte, who has apparently returned
from the dead.)
The inquisitor listens hungrily, determined to suss out whether these children
are indeed saints who can perform miracles, or heretics rightly hunted by the king.
But as the tales unfold, we begin to sense there are bigger wonders afoot. For one, as
the stories place the children in increasingly surreal and preposteroussounding
adventures — featuring demon forests, a farting dragon, doublecrossing knights,
horsedevouring quicksand and a wicked queen mother — we readers begin to lose
all sense of what’s true and what’s not, just like the inquisitor, who must contend
with an entire inn full of unreliable narrators. For another, despite the competing
motivations, perspectives, even dialects of the individual storytellers, a larger
narrative magically takes hold — about three children divided by class, race and
religion who find that in the search for the truth about God and the universe,
perhaps friendship is the greatest marvel of all.
What Gidwitz, the author of the Grimm trilogy, accomplishes here is staggering.
“The Inquisitor’s Tale” is equal parts swashbuckling epic, medieval morality play,
religious polemic and bawdy burlesque, propelling us toward a whiteknuckle climax
where three children must leap into a fire to save . . . a Talmud. And yet, the rescue
of this single book feels like higher stakes than any worldincinerating superhero
battle. Part of this is because “The Inquisitor’s Tale” is dense with literary and earthy
delights, including Hatem Aly’s exquisite illustrations, which wrap around the text as
in an illuminated manuscript. Working together, the art and story veer exuberantly
between the high and the low to make Jeanne, Jacob and William feel like fleshandblood
children, despite their holiness.
One moment William, a devout Christian, is arguing with Jacob over whether a
Jewish writer is a pawn of the Devil; the next, Jeanne and Jacob are trying to survive
a bout with smelly cheese. In both cases, the children grow beyond their initial
judgments and prejudices because they’re willing to listen to a friend. (Which raises
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the question: Are these children actually saints? Or are they saints because they’re
children?) Even the lighter moments — with the cheese, for instance, which turns
out to hold the secret to curing the flatulent dragon — serve to illuminate a larger
truth about both life and the book we hold in our hands: that in the midst of a story,
we cannot see the bigger plan until we get to its very end.
Soman Chainani is the author of the School for Good and Evil trilogy.
A version of this review appears in print on October 9, 2016, on Page BR19 of the Sunday Book Review
with the headline: Saints and Sinners.
THE GRIMM CONCLUSION
by Adam Gidwitz
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The names change, but the characters and themes not so much as Gidwitz takes a pair of children through a third series of folk-tale scenarios punctuated with washes of blood, fire, tears and parental issues that presage readers’ encounters with Bruno Bettelheim.
Before finally making good on their vow never to part, twins Jorinda and Joringel hie off on separate plotlines. Jorinda, as Ashputtle (freely translated as “Toilet Cleaner”), is betrothed to a comically clueless prince, survives three nights in an ogre’s haunted castle, becomes a child tyrant queen and is murdered. Joringel, magically reconstituted after having his head snipped off by his stepfather, swallows a fear-killing juniper berry, gives Sleeping Beauty CPR and rescues his sister from hell with help from the devil’s grandmother. So intrusive a narrator that even his characters hear him, Gidwitz offers commentary and (necessarily frequent) warnings about upcoming shocks. He then later steps in to shepherd his protagonists to modern Brooklyn for some metafictional foolery before closing with notes on his sources. After many tears, few of them happy ones, and much reference to suppressed feelings of anger and guilt, the children are reconciled with their neglectful, widowed mother and go on to a happy-ever-after in an anarchic day camp dubbed Jungreich, the Kingdom of Children.
Entertaining story-mongering, with traditional and original tropes artfully intertwined. (Fantasy. 11-14)
Pub Date: Oct. 8th, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-525-42615-8
Page count: 368pp
Publisher: Dutton
Review Posted Online: Aug. 31st, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15th, 2013