Award-winning adaptor of fairy tales Adam Gidwitz will discuss the ethics and his methods of adapting truly dark, truly grim tales for kids. He will focus on the German tradition, especially the Brothers Grimm.
The old German fairy tales are weird, scary, and bloody. They feature murder and threats of incest and child abuse. So should we share them with kids today? Or are they a relic of a time that is (thankfully) long gone? And if we share them with kids today, how should we do that? Are we trying to scare them? Or scar them? Or is there something useful in these weird, bloody, grim old tales? Adam Gidwitz is the author of A Tale Dark & Grimm and its companions, producer of the animated Netflix adaptation, and creator of the award-winning podcast Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest. He will discuss the best—and the grimmest!—elements of the old German fairy tales, especially those by the Brothers Grimm and Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, and he’ll discuss the ethics, and his method, of adapting these tales for kids.
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