Tag: James Riley

Once Upon Another Time: Tall Tales, fast paced, quick mglit turns

What if The Princess Bride and Back to the Future Part II had a baby? Hear me out. The former has familiar fairy tale characters but is completely its own entity.  The latter is in a trilogy of films that build upon its created world and ends on a cliffhanger. Once Upon Another Time: Tall Tales is the second in this series of mglit books by New York Times bestselling author James Riley. It’s a book that combines elements of those two things in middle-grade fiction that zip and zags with speed, humor, and aplomb.

Once Upon Another Time: Tall Tales takes Lena and Jin further down the rabbit hole as the Golden King plots Earth-ending revenge.
Upending fairy tales and making them cool for MGLit readers

Once Upon Another Time, escapist mglit that’s a fun, summer, anytime read

I have a thing against film biographies because I already know how they end. Once Upon Another Time feels like a biography because readers will feel like they know the characters, and certainly will recognize the setting where it all happens. There are giants. There’s a magic beanstalk that the giants have used to go down to where the humans live. However, there is also magic, invisible beings, faceless knights, and kings, both good and bad. The result is an mglit book that lives in the world of James Riley’s, The Half Upon a Time series, but is an entirely new, three-book offering that’ll please those readers aged nine and up.

Once Upon Another Time is great, escapist fun that’s set in the world James Riley created in Half Upon a Time and perfect for ages 9 and up.
This is great, go-to stuff for ages 9 and up
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