书名：In a Glass Grimmly
读者对象：10岁及以上 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数630L
作者：Adam Gidwitz
出版社名称：Puffin Books
出版时间：2013
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780142425060
商品尺寸：13 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：352

In a Glass Grimmly是美国作家亚当·吉德维茨所著的儿童小说，为三部曲系列之一，讲述了关于韩塞尔和葛雷特两兄妹的暗黑童话故事，这些故事均来源于经典的格林童话。这是一本很好的英文章节小说书，故事幽默有趣，可作为中小学英语阅读提升推荐读物使用。

From the Newbery Honor-winning, New York Times bestselling author—with cover and interior illustrations by Dan Santat!
If you dare, join Jack and Jill as they embark on a harrowing quest through a new set of tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and others. Follow along as they enter startling new landscapes that may (or may not) be scary, bloody, terrifying, and altogether true in this hair-raising companion to Adam Gidwitz’s widely acclaimed, award-winning debut, A Tale Dark & Grimm.
An Oprah Kids’ Reading List Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best New Book of the Week Pick
For more twisted tales look for A Tale Dark & Grimm and The Grimm Conclusion

Review
"Gidwitz is back with a second book that, if possible, outshines A Tale Dark & Grimm."--School Library Journal

"Compulsively readable."--Kirkus Reviews

"Gory, hilarious, touching, and lyrical all at once, with tons of kid appeal."--The Horn Book

"Adam Gidwitz leads us into creepy forests, gruesome deeds, terrible monsters, and--far worse--the dark places of the human heart. It's horrible… and I LOVED it!"--Tom Angleberger, author of The Strange Case of Origami

Adam Gidwitz taught in Brooklyn for eight years. Now, he writes full time—which means he writes a couple of hours a day, and lies on his couch staring at the ceiling the rest of the time. As is the case with all of his books, everything in them not only happened in the real fairy tales...it all also happened to him. Really. Learn more at www.adamgidwitz.com, on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter: @AdamGidwitz

At the center of the kingdom Marchen as a castle. Behind this castle was a hidden grove. In the grove was awell. And at thebottom of the well there lived a frog.
He was a sad frog.He did not like his well. It waswet and mossy and dirty, and very very very very very very very smelly.
All day long the frog sat at the bottom of his well as salamanders splashed around him. Now, maybeyou know it, and maybe you don’t, but salamanders are not the most popular creatures in the animal kingdom.
But why? Salamanders seem all right to von.They’re lots of pretty colors, like shimmery purple and glow red.They have tinyblack eyes that stare at you oh-so-very-cutely. And they have these littlemouths that are permanently curled into tiny,maybe-smiles.
All of this is true. But, in addition to the pretty colors and the tiny eyes and the maybe-smiles, they have these shrill little voices which they use to ask the most idiotic, mind-numbing questions thatyou have ever heard.
For example:
“Why isblue?”
Or, “Who is a stone?”
Or, “What tastes better, a fly or a fly?”
Or, “Who is uglier, me or Fred? Is it me? it’s me, right? Me? Is it me?”
The sad frog’s only solace, amid the damp, and the filth, and the smell, and the salamanders, was the sky. All day and all night, the frog stared up at a little patch of sky that peered down into his clearing. Sometimes it was gray like slate, other times it was inky black, other times it was washed with a burning red. But most of the time the sky above hiswell was a clear, deep blue, with white shapes like fluffy rocks that floatedacross its face. All day and all night he stared up, unblinking, at that sky.
And then, one day, while the frog was staring up at his sky, he hearda peculiar stomp-stomp-stomping on the forest floor. Itwas followed by a sudden whoomp, and then a cry.