Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls

Once known, now largely forgotten, these empowering fairy tales have been brought together to inspire a new generation of readers. Discover heroines who outwit giants, fight evil, awaken sleeping princes and, of course, live happily ever after. With a foreword by Kate Pankhurst, author of Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World.Chapters in this book include:- The Daring Princess (based on 'The Iron Stove' retold by the Brothers Grimm)- The Sleeping Prince (based on an old Spanish story 'The King Sleeping in his Bed')- Snow White and Rose Red (based on 'The Ungrateful Dwarf' by Caroline Stahl and its retelling by the Brothers Grimm)- Clever Molly (based on an old Scottish tale collected by Joseph Jacobs and Flora Annie Steele)- Kate Crankernuts (a Scottish fairy tale collected by Andrew and Nora Lang in the Orkney Islands)- The Nettle Princess (based on a story first written down by Karl Mullenhoff, later collected by the Brothers Grimm)- The Wise Princess (based on a very old English story that inspired William Shakespeare's 'King Lear')- Fearless Fiona and the Spellbound Knight (based on the story 'Tam Lin' which was originally sung as a Scottish Ballad)

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Davidson, Davidson Susanna, Rosie Dickins, Dickins Rosie, Rob Lloyd Jones, Jones Rob Lloyd, Andy Prentice, VARIOUS
• Assisted by: Isabella Grott (Illustration), Alessandra Santelli (Illustration), Maria Surducan (Illustration), Surducan Maria (Illustration), VARIOUS (Illustration)
• Publisher: Usborne Publishing
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 10
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781474966429
• ISBN: 978-1-4749-6642-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 247 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Illustrated Story Collections; Illustrated Story Collections
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Interest age: from c 7 years, Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), Anthologies (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies