Life isn't a fairy tale... From the award-winning author of Lampie A determined girl gives up on kissing a frog. A fearless heroine comes face-to-face with a not-so Big Bad Wolf. A monstrous princess, held captive on a deserted island, yearns to break free. Within this book are seven famous fairy tales turned into enchanting, inspiring and sometimes hair-raising stories for today's world, about girls with their own dreams and desires. These are no damsels in distress, but real young women of flesh and blood – who certainly don't need rescuing. "A wickedly delicious book. Surprising, subversive and totally addictive" - Sophie Anderson Annet Schaap is one of the Netherlands' best-loved illustrators. Lampie, her debut novel, won four prizes in the Netherlands and Flanders, including the Gouden Griffel for the best Dutch children's book of the year, and was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The girls in these sharp-fanged fairytale retellings are brave, dedicated and flexible enough to free themselves without the help of princes... Bold, sharp and written with deceptive simplicity, and heightened by Schaap's ominous black-and-white illustrations, this is an absorbing, slyly sinister collection for 11+
Published by: Climbing Vine Press