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4-6My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Fairy Tales series.
Illustrated by
Aleksei Bitskoff.
Maddie loves fairy tales, but her stepbrother, Holden, always has a criticism. His computer tablet magically sucks them into Holden's version of each story, which they have to fix in order to get home. Holden's Aladdin rides a hoverboard around the desert, and his Beast winds up in jail for kidnapping. These minimally illustrated fractured tales are humorous though rather one-note in concept. Glos. Review covers these My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Fairy Tales titles: My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Aladdin and My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Beauty and the Beast.