Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen:
Book Review

Spinners Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen

Once long ago there lived 2 spinners as different as black and white. One was a beautiful young girl who spun because she loved to and it provided money for her and her father to live on. The second was a rumpled, old man who also spun to provide money for him to live on. But this man also held a secret, the secret to spin straw into gold. But unfortunately this secret cost him everything he loved. Now outcast and unloved he kept this talent of his locked up deep in his bitter heart, a heart that used to love compassionately. Through certain circumstances, these two completely different people find each other-in a castle dungeon filled with straw and certain doom. Can this man's talent save the girl? Will she finally know the truth about her past?

Spinners is a very intense book. It has many unexpected twists and turns. My favorite thing about this book is how the authors were able to take a very known fairy tale and change it in a way to make it so different that one would never know what was going to happen next.

Reviewed by 13 year-old girl reviewer