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Review: Ever After High - The Storybook of Legends - Shannon Hale

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Review: The Storybook of Legends - Book #1 Ever After High - Shannon Hale - October 2013  Part of my job as a Children's and Teen Services Librarian, is to have a look at the new books that arrive in that section and then a personal love of mine is reading renditions of fairytales and legends.  I have also enjoyed Shannon Hale's adult book Austenland , so when I saw the Ever After High . I decided to give it a go and I found myself loving it . If you read the series School of Good and Evil or watched the movie The Descendants - Disney Channel you will love Ever After High and I could see them making this into a TV series. Ever After High is a boarding school for the children of the characters in fairytales - both good and evil as well as minor characters like the Mad Hatter's daughter "Madeline". The Storybook of Legends tells the story of Apple White (Snow White's Daughter) and Raven ( Evil Queen's Daughter). Likewise in The Descendants's mov...