"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"--Amazon.com.
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+