A collection of dark, funny retellings of 7 classic and familiar fairy tales, giving young adult readers a new perspective for navigating everyday challenges.
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.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 UK's Carnegie Medal. It is also available from Pushkin Children's Books.
Laura Watkinson is a full-time translator from Dutch, Italian and German. She has also translated many titles for Pushkin Children's Books, including Jan Terlouw'sWinter in Wartime, Tonke Dragt's The Letter for the King and Annet Schaap's Of Salt and Shore. She lives in Amsterdam.