“…funny, but bloody.”

“…awesome and hilarious.”

“…really funny, disgusting, and a little scary and creepy.”

“…funny, scary, and gross all at the same time.”

Those are a few of the enthusiastic responses Edinger House students have had to Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm, a fantastic new book Ms. Edinger began reading aloud in September. Yesterday we had the awesome experience of Adam Gidwitz himself reading the last chapter. Here’s a brief video with some of the highlights of Adam’s reading and interactions with the class.

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Ms. Feldman and Ms. Edinger first read Mr Gidwitz's book in galley in July. After reading it they wrote about it their blogs:

• http://medinger.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/coming-soon-adam-gidwitzs-a-tale-dark-and-grimm/
• http://fairrosa.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/a-tale-dark-and-grimm/

 A few weeks later they heard him speak at a publisher event and decided to bring him to Dalton. Ms. Feldman attained the galleys for the Faculty Book club and brought Mr. Gidwitz and his editor, Julie Strauss-Gabel, to join them last Friday, November 5. Ms. Edinger's post on that day is here: http://medinger.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/three-amazing-writers/

Ms. Feldman invited Mr. Gidwitz back on Monday to speak to the HS Sci-Fi club and Ms. Edinger invited him to speak to her class, thus the video and blog post:

http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2010/11/09/adam-gidwitz-reads-the-last-chapter-of-a-tale-dark-and-grimm/

Mr. Gidwitz will be coming back in January to work with all the 4th grade classes as they write Cindy stories as part of Edinger House's Cinderella Study.

~ Stacey Lorentz (Photos and top story), Monica Edinger (Video and More Info.) with Roxanne Feldman