School for Good and Evil series, credits Walt Disney and a year of pandemic-induced isolation for his most recent children’s novel, Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, a retelling of the famed Grimm brothers’ fairy tales, which have been scaring children since 1812.“I grew up with Disney fairy tales,” Chainani says. “I think that’s sort of the common American plight — to grow up having experienced fairy tales through that lens…and so they’re quite one-dimensional in that good looks a certain way, evil looks a certain way.