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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.
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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.