The Fairy-Tale Detectives, by Michael Buckley
The Fairy-Tale Detectives, by Michael Buckley
A Review by Olivia Ogden
For the last year and a half, ever since their parents disappeared, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have been bouncing around in the foster care system. Their social worker, Ms. Smirt, seems to be actively looking for bad placements for the girls. As the book starts, they're being taken to yet another placement, and Sabrina, age 11, thinks this one may be the worst yet. Mrs. Smirt says that she's taking them to live with their grandmother, but the girls were told that their grandmother was dead.
Fortunately, the new placement, a woman named Relda Grimm, who lives in Ferryport, New York, is able to convince Sabrina that she is their grandmother (Daphne never doubted her). However, then she offers something even more impossible for Sabrina to believe -- that the Grimm family are historians and detectives for a community of fairy tale beings known as "Everafters."
Granny Relda tells them that Wilhelm Grimm, the girls' great-great-great-great-grandfather, brought the Everafters to America in search of a new beginning, and that Ferryport Landing, originally known as "Fairyport Landing," is their home.
Sabrina is truly unconvinced, until Granny Relda takes the girls to investigate the destruction of a farmhouse and from above, the destruction site looks like a humongous footprint . . . .
I have to admit that I avoided buying these for a few years, since they looked just a little *too* whimsical for my taste. But I'm glad I finally broke down and got into them. They're really very highly enjoyable.
A Review by Olivia Ogden
For the last year and a half, ever since their parents disappeared, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have been bouncing around in the foster care system. Their social worker, Ms. Smirt, seems to be actively looking for bad placements for the girls. As the book starts, they're being taken to yet another placement, and Sabrina, age 11, thinks this one may be the worst yet. Mrs. Smirt says that she's taking them to live with their grandmother, but the girls were told that their grandmother was dead.
Fortunately, the new placement, a woman named Relda Grimm, who lives in Ferryport, New York, is able to convince Sabrina that she is their grandmother (Daphne never doubted her). However, then she offers something even more impossible for Sabrina to believe -- that the Grimm family are historians and detectives for a community of fairy tale beings known as "Everafters."
Granny Relda tells them that Wilhelm Grimm, the girls' great-great-great-great-grandfather, brought the Everafters to America in search of a new beginning, and that Ferryport Landing, originally known as "Fairyport Landing," is their home.
Sabrina is truly unconvinced, until Granny Relda takes the girls to investigate the destruction of a farmhouse and from above, the destruction site looks like a humongous footprint . . . .
I have to admit that I avoided buying these for a few years, since they looked just a little *too* whimsical for my taste. But I'm glad I finally broke down and got into them. They're really very highly enjoyable.