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A playful reworking of familiar fairy-tale plots, with modern settings and comic reversals. The contents list ten separate stories by different contributors.
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A playful reworking of familiar fairy-tale plots, with modern settings and comic reversals. The contents list ten separate stories by different contributors.
Elizabeth Lim
A folklore-infused fantasy about a cursed princess undertaking dangerous trials to save her brothers. Its strongest threads are family loyalty, courage, sacrifice and repairing harm, while its trials include physical danger, death and bereavement.
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.
Kathryn Purdie
A good fit for readers drawn to eerie fairy-tale retellings, magical quests, mysteries and determined protagonists. Its central journey carries genuine danger, while its romantic thread and unresolved ending may shape the reading experience.
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.
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.
Chris Colfer
This is a return-to-a-familiar-world adventure built around a family rescue. Its strongest promise is imaginative fairy-tale danger, with the twins facing a frightening change and making their own way towards their mother.
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.
Andrew Winkel
This is a lively, imaginative collection built around two very young superhero brothers. Expect repeated problem-solving adventures, comic absurdity and genre-hopping, with stories involving villains, magic, science fiction and literary or mythological ideas.