Whatever After: Fairest of them All
by Sarah Mlynowski
Modern Fantasy/Chapter Book
This book is about a young girl, Abby, and her brother, Jonah. While in the basement, they find an old mirror and are transported into Snow White's fairy tale. They think they've saved the day when they stop Snow from eating the poisonous apple, but then they find themselves stuck in a fairy tale that isn't playing out the way it should. The brother-sister pair work together to eventually successfully escape the fairy tale world and come back to their own. Abby is the narrator, making it easy to read and very entertaining.
This book is great because of the story line and female main character. Personally, I never really enjoyed science fiction or fantasy books growing up, but I think I would have if I had found some with relatable female characters. This is a good book for introducing fantasy-type literature to students who don't think they like it. Like many of the books I read for this project, this is one that I think I'd likely have in a class library, rather than use specifically for instruction. However, since it is a modern variation of a classic fairy tale, this could be a book to use during a unit on fairy tales.
This book is great because of the story line and female main character. Personally, I never really enjoyed science fiction or fantasy books growing up, but I think I would have if I had found some with relatable female characters. This is a good book for introducing fantasy-type literature to students who don't think they like it. Like many of the books I read for this project, this is one that I think I'd likely have in a class library, rather than use specifically for instruction. However, since it is a modern variation of a classic fairy tale, this could be a book to use during a unit on fairy tales.
Mlynowski, S. (2012). Whatever After. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
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