Girls by Annet Schaap

Girls by Annet Schaap

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 bookSurprising, 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

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.

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ISBN 13	9781782693789
ISBN 10	1782693785
Title	Girls
Author	Annet Schaap
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pushkin Children's Books
Year published	2023-10-05
Number of pages	192
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