A Royal Hot Mess Not Written for Kids: What if I told you Beauty and the Beast were kissing cousins?! If you’ve been thinking Beauty and the Beast is just that cute Disney romance, bless your heart — you’ve been…
The Beauty and the Beast
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle
Welcome to the Midnight Carnival: The hag that outshined the whole dang thang… bless it. When I picked up The Last Unicorn, my heart was already galloping. This was the story behind one of my favorite childhood films—talking butterflies, enchanted forests, a…
The Hunting Wives
by May Cobb
When She’s Living off Daddy’s Money… and You Ain’t: How far would you go to fit in? Y’all. I have feelings about this book—and a whole lotta iced coffee fueling this review, so buckle in. I picked up The Hunting…
Cinderella
by The Brothers Grimm
The Soot-Stained Saint: When prayer grew a tree and the birds called out the frauds! Darlin’, I picked up the Grimm Brothers’ Cinderella thinkin’ I was in for a simple short story of sorcery and secret romance—maybe a gentle moral…
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
When Nursery Rhymes Turn Violent Step into Chapter 6, where child care is chaos, dinner may kill you, and the cat’s the only one with any sense. I cracked open Alice in Wonderland thinking I was in for a…
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Killer Dress… The Death of House Hamlet: In the royal court of Denmark, Ophelia was a fragile bloom caught amidst a thicket of ungodly men, whose hearts were poisoned with pride, greed, lust, and wrath. Like a lamb among wolves,…
Rapunzel
by The Brothers Grimm
From Garden to Grief: The Sin That Grew Into a Tower Because sin never stays small—and neither do its consequences Okay, saints and sinners, gather ’round—because today’s tale isn’t just a fairy story, it’s generational trauma wrapped in garden herbs…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Family, Chewed Up and Spit Out: The Brat Who Stole the Show (and Her Mother’s Dignity) in the Most Disturbing Chapter Roald Dahl Ever Wrote! There are two kinds of folks in this world: the ones who read Charlie…