Record a Grimm Episode with Adam!
5/6/20264 min
Storytelling with Children Festival
Sunday, May 17, 2026 @ 9:30 AM–4:00 PM EDT
500 S Franklin St, Syracuse, NY
Adam will be in Syracuse for a full day dedicated to sparking imagination and a love of storytelling. As part of the festival, he’ll host a live recording of Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest, debuting a brand-new Grimm fairy tale with help from the audience. The event also includes a VIP meet-and-greet, storytelling sessions throughout the day, and a book signing.
🎟️ Find tickets HERE: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/storytelling-with-children
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat jingle] Pinna.
Adam Gidwitz· Host0:02
When I meet kids and grown-ups who listen to Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest, one of the first questions I get asked is, "How do you do those recordings? Where do you do those recordings?" And then the third question, or sometimes the second and even sometimes the first, is, "How do I get on one of those recordings?" So I'm gonna pull back the curtain a little bit and tell you about how it works. And then if you stick around to the end of this, I'm gonna tell you how you could be on one very, very soon. There are three ways that we record Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest episodes. The first way is I go into a school, and those schools have always been in New York City, 'cause I live in New York, and so it's easier for me to record a whole season at one of those schools. Uh, usually one school is in Brooklyn and then the other school might be in Staten Island or Manhattan, somewhere else. And I'll go there, and I go five times, and I record two stories each time I'm there. And then I go to another school the next day. If I've been in Brooklyn on Wednesday, for example, I'll go to Staten Island on Thursday, record the same two stories. That way we've got two recordings with two different groups of kids for every story. And then when I come home to edit them, I can choose, you know, my favorite moments from each recording and blend them together to make the episode. And that's how we'll make 10 episodes of a season. Now, during the pandemic, it was a little different. I was recording them from home because we couldn't be in schools. And then we opened