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Author: Schaap, Annet

Reading age: from c 9 years

Published on 7 November 2024 by Pushkin Children’s Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 192 pages
197 x 130 x 14 | 172g

‘Wickedly delicious… Surprising, subversive and totally addictive’ Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs

From the Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of Lampie, this new collection of seven dazzling fairytale retellings is full of bravery, adventure and dark wit.

A determined girl gives up on kissing a frog.

A fearless heroines 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.