![]() ![]() The magic mirror and the fairy tie the stories together. Mlynowski is also clever in the hints she drops in each book about the fairy in the magic mirror, Maryrose. In this story as in the others, Abby isn’t the only character who grows and matures and learns a lesson. He, as well as Abby, learns about what is important in life. This is the first story in the series in which her brother plays a rather important role. Although it’s still a happy-ever-after, Beauty and the Beast are not together. And as in most of the stories in this series, the happy ending is changed. When she and her brother go back in time to the story of “Beauty and the Beast,” she learns an important lesson. She feels terrible about it and thinks she must be an awful person. ![]() In this story, Abby is jealous of a friend’s painting and destroys it on purpose. What Mlynowski does with the stories is clever and thought-provoking.Įach story with its different fairy tale brings a different message to the reader. In this delightful series, Abby and her brother Jonah go through a magic mirror into a fairy tale story. “Whatever After: Beauty Queen” is the seventh book in the lighthearted middle grade series (for younger middle grade readers) comprised of fractured fairy tales. ![]()
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