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Christine Heppermann
This is an intense, image-rich poetry collection that turns familiar tales inside out. Its poems confront damaging expectations while making room for anger, humour, self-questioning and resistance.
Margo Lanagan, Michael Page Anne Flosnik
This is literary fantasy rather than a gentle fairy tale: a refuge formed after abuse becomes a setting for examining protection, secrecy and the daughters’ developing agency. Expect symbolic transformation, vivid bodily imagery and abrupt movement between beauty, humour and brutality.
Kalynn Bayron
A feminist and LGBTQ retelling in which Sophia challenges a kingdom built around compulsory marriage and rigid social control. It offers a brisk adventure, romance and resistance, while drawing on real-world patterns of misogyny, homophobia and authoritarian rule.
Jon Scieszka
A lively, mischievous retelling of a familiar fairy tale, told by the wolf himself. Its central pleasure is uncertainty: readers must weigh his explanations rather than simply accept the version they already know.
Gillian Cross
Expect a tense, psychologically charged story about a teenager confronting withheld family truths. Its interest lies in fear, responsibility and changing interpretations of danger, rather than simply solving a sequence of clues.
Liesl Shurtliff
Expect a fast-moving fairy-tale adventure involving illness, magic, strange creatures, rival pursuers and travel through unsettling settings. Red’s fear, friendship with Goldie and changing understanding of others drive the story.
Lyn Gardner
A playful, allusive fantasy adventure for readers who enjoy familiar tales being remixed. Its energy comes from pursuit, magical danger and comic invention, though the story also uses frightening threats and uncertainty around loss rather than keeping everything comfortably reassuring.
Tommy Wallach
This is a bittersweet, unusual coming-of-age novel about connection after loss. Parker’s silence, Zelda’s mystery and the stories he writes create a reflective blend of romance, humour, grief and questions about mortality.
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