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Girls: Life Isn't a Fairy Tale

Girls: Life Isn't a Fairy Tale

Schaap, Annet
Watkinson, Laura
Schaap, Annet

Paperback

Young Adult Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 1782693793
ISBN13: 9781782693796
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A collection of dark, funny retellings of 7 classic and familiar fairy tales, giving young adult readers a new perspective for navigating everyday challenges.

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+. --Guardian

These are no damsels in distress, but young women of flesh and blood - who certainly don't need rescuing. In these 7 famous fairy tales turned into enchanting, inspiring and sometimes hair-raising stories for today's world, you'll find girls with their own dreams and desires, bravely facing problems that are both relatable and daunting and fighting to overcome them.

  • A miller's daughter with a special gift decides marrying a prince wasn't such a good idea after all.
  • A determined girl gives up on trying to kiss 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 and find her true place in the world.
  • Two sisters, abandoned by their father, wander lost in the big city, until they meet a pair of very helpful old ladies.
  • A young maid finds something terrible in a locked room while she is cleaning the Reverend's house - then the Reverend arrives home.
  • A forgotten young girl learns to finally let go of her sleeping big sister and live her own life.

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