My mother, she killed me. My father, he ate me. My sister, Marlene, she made sure to see my bones were all gathered together, bound nicely in silk, as neat as can be, and laid beneath the juniper tree. Tweet, tweet! What a lovely bird I am! I loved this book. I want it on my shelf. Shaun Tan's sculptures are amazing. I can't say anything profound, because well, I'm not an art expert, but I like looking at them and thinking of them as sort of like a visual summary (in sculpture form, that is) of the Grimms' stories. Here are some of my favorites - Oh, here's what it looks like irl:

Personally I enjoyed the summaries included in the back more than the snippets of stories provided.