Grimmtastic Girls: Red Riding Hood Gets Lost

Grimmtastic Girls: Red Riding Hood Gets Lost

By: Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams

Review by: Ruby S.

The main characters in Red Riding Hood Gets Lost are: Red, Cinda [Cinderella], Snow [Snow White], Rapunzel and Wolfgang. Red as in Red Riding Hood has black fuzzy hair, brown eyes and is always carrying a basket. She loves to act. Red receives a magic basket as her magic charm for having a good heart. 

Cinda is a blonde, blue eyed girl who loves anything that has to do with sports. Her charm is a pair of glass slippers that let her twirl and dance, and without them, she's really bad at dancing.

Snow is a shy girl with short black hair, brown eyes, and is always being insulted by her step-mom, Ms.Wicked. She is mainly gets insults about her appearance and does not have a charm yet.

Rapunzel has long black hair and blue eyes. She is afraid of heights and constantly has to cut her quickly growing hair. Rapunzel does not have a charm yet.

Wolfgang is a boy who can shape shift into a wolf and is always calling Red by synonyms of the color red. He loves to act  and did not get a charm because boys don't normally receive them.

The setting is in a realm called Grimmlandia. It was made by the Grimm brothers to protect all: fairytale characters, nursery rhymes, folk tales and poems from a world of evil characters called E.V.I.L. [exceptional villains in literature]

The story is told by Red Riding Hood, even though it sounds like someone else is telling the story.

In a far away land called Grimmlandia, Red trys out for a play but has stage fright. Red then decides to focus on helping her friends to save the school from a group called E.V.I.L. The group is trying to locate some artifacts to weaken the wall that separates Grimmlandia from the world of beasts and Dastardlies so Grimmlandia will no longer exist.

The problem in this story is the group stealing artifacts and charms. The problem does not get solved in this book they solve it in the last book called Rapunzel Cuts Loose. Which is the last book in the series. The problem is solved by Rapunzel being brave and going to one of their meetings in the tower that she grew up in as a little girl.

A magic charm is an object that could be anything and it just appears any time you need it most. Red has a magic basket so it can deliver stuff though it that you need but can’t get it at the moment. The one thing that is a twist to it is that it only works for those that it came for and there is always some kind of code.

This story is a fantasy book because it involves lots of magic and here are some examples:

~A basket comes to her and can deliver anything through it.

~The school is in different realm with all the fairy tale creatures we read about.

~Her drama teacher Mr. Thumb is no bigger than a thumb.

~The Grimmstone library moves around on its own and changes its size and there is also a magic mirror that you can check out dresses, fruit, hugs and lots of other stuff.

~The wisest woman in Grimmlandia who is a good witch Grandmother Enchantress transports inside a crystal ball.

Those are examples of what makes this a fantasy book. I did not find any irony in this book when I was reading it.

What I liked about this book was that there was always an adventure. What I also liked was it left you on a loose end for you to get some answers in the next one. I also like how they described it so detailed and with lots of feelings. If I could change anything, it would be to put more evil characters in the book and make more books for the series. I would also put more description of who Grandmother Enchantress is. I would recommend this book to people who like fairy tales and enjoy stories of princesses with a bit of mystery.