In the Sisters Grimm series

THE SISTERS GRIMM

BOOK EIGHT

THE INSIDE STORY

ALSO BY MICHAEL BUCKLEY:

In the Sisters Grimm series

BOOK ONE: THE FAIRY-TALE DETECTIVES

BOOK TWO: THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS

BOOK THREE: THE PROBLEM CHILD

BOOK FOUR: ONCE UPON A CRIME

BOOK FIVE: MAGIC AND OTHER MISDEMEANORS

BOOK SIX: TALES FROM THE HOOD

BOOK SEVEN: THE EVERAFTER WAR

BOOK EIGHT: THE INSIDE STORY

In the NERDS series:

NERDS: NATIONAL ESPIONAGE, RESCUE,
AND DEFENSE SOCIETY

NERDS: M IS FOR MAMA’S BOY

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN 978-0-8109-8430-1

Copyright © 2010 Michael Buckley
Illustrations copyright © 2010 Peter Ferguson

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book was the most difficult of the series to write, even with the considerable help of the geniuses who came long before me. First, thanks to Carlo Collodi’s masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio, and also to Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation of The Arabian Nights, L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as well as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Annotated Brothers Grimm, edited and translated by Maria Tatar, was also essential to this writing. Unfortunately, there are tales I used whose authors have faded from our collective knowledge, but their spirits visited me and I thank them for their timeless stories.

I want to thank my editors, Susan Van Metre and Maggie Lehrman, for their incredible patience. Without their many, many, many extensions (and efforts to prevent my nervous breakdown), I would not have been able to finish. I also want to thank everyone at Abrams for their incredible support, including Michael Jacobs and Howard Reeves, the marketing and sales departments, and my publicists, Jason Wells, Mary Ann Zissimos, and Laura Mihalick. Much thanks to Chad Beckerman for his amazing vision and talent.

There is also my agent and wife, the amazing, talented, and beautiful Alison Fargis of the Stonesong Press; my good friend Joe Deasy, who reads and rereads these books; my family; my good friend Josh Drisko, who keeps me laughing at myself; and Mary Brown, Jessie Harper, and Erica Alicea at Starbucks #11807 on Smith Street in Brooklyn.

But above all, thanks to my son, Finn, who inspires a million stories with every smile.

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