Now, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rizzo and more return to take on another literary favorite with Muppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm (out this week). The book, written by Erik ...

“You should see my spreadsheet! I got real mathematical and dipped into Excel,” the author tells EW of matching Muppet to fairy tale. “The casting process for both of the books took a ...

She decided to write them as parodies — funny takes on fairy tales or other familiar ... were among the earliest appearances of the Muppets. The copy writer was my mother, Ruth Branchor.

But “Muppets Now!,” a digital-era updating of ... And where many such backstage fairy tales would introduce a villain, a tempter, a wolf in executive clothing to lead them astray, the ...