Girls
Annet Schaap author Laura Watkinson translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pushkin Children's Books
Published:5th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
A collection of dark, funny retellings of classic fairytales for girls growing up in the modern world-from the author of Lampie
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'Wickedly delicious' SOPHIE ANDERSON
'Clever and witty' YARROW TOWNSEND
'Satisfying, surprising and consistently superb' MICHAEL MANN
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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
'Spell-bound by these clever and witty stories' - Yarrow Townsend
'*** - Praise for Lampie' - ***
'Lampie stood out... a dark-and-stormy-night of a fairytale that I absolutely loved' - Hilary McKay
'Schaap is a famous illustrator in the Netherlands and her debut novel will illuminate children all around the world' - The Times, 20 Children's Books for Summer
ISBN: 9781782693789
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
192 pages