Poisoned apples
Christine Heppermann
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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.
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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.
Cindy Pham
A sombre, imaginative story about sisters, a sleeping princess and a dreamworld shaped by inner struggles. Expect more emotional and psychological exploration than fast-moving adventure, with fairy-tale wonder alongside painful material.
Rutendo Dione
A fast-moving fantasy adventure combines fairy-tale reworking, coding, futuristic inventions and family emotion. Amber’s ordered life is disrupted by a rescue mission, while her father’s past adds a more serious strand.
Isabel Otter
This offers a collection of less familiar fairy tales from around the world, with heroines who solve problems through wit, courage and resourcefulness rather than needing rescue.
Radiya Hafiza
Rumaysa’s search for her parents leads into a magical adventure involving a queen, traditional fairy-tale figures and unusual creatures. The story combines danger, humour and a heroine who takes an active, compassionate role.
Kelly Easton
This is a strange, fairy-tale-inflected escape adventure about a child discovering a wider world after a highly restrictive upbringing. Its appeal lies in Liberty’s unusual circumstances, imaginative discoveries and search for a personally meaningful future.