Girls
Life Isn't a Fairy Tale
Published on 5. October 2023
192 pages
978-1-78269-380-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Annet Schaap is one of the Netherlands' best-loved authors and illustrators. Her debut novel Lampie won four prizes in the Netherlands and Flanders, including the Golden Pencil for the best Dutch children's book of the year, was translated into twenty languages and was the first translated book to ever be shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It is also available from Pushkin Children's Books.
