Real girls want to read about real life, with its sadness, pain, loneliness, and jealousy. Real girls experience real feelings. They fall, get bruised and bumped, and get up again, older and wiser. Girls are no longer fairy-tale characters, but people of flesh and blood. Annette Schap, a renowned Dutch artist and writer, author of the fairy tale 'The Lamp,' transformed seven classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault into amazing stories about seven girls. These tales, reimagined in a modern way, are imbued with deep psychological insight, and between the lines you can find more hidden meaning than meets the eye.
In 2021, the book won the prestigious Dutch literary prize, the Bronze Stylus.
5 reasons to buy the book 'Girls. Seven Fairy Tales»:
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The long-awaited second book by Annette Schaap, author of the Dutch bestseller «The Lamp»;
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An original interpretation of seven classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault with girl protagonists;
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The effect of psychotherapy while reading;
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A new reading of familiar fairy tales - without moralizing, but with deep psychologism;
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The author's illustrations, done in an unusual line technique, complement each fairy tale.
QUOTES FROM THE BOOK:
«She knew that one day this would happen. True, she always imagined that it would all happen on the street, that for some reason he would be dressed like a commoner, some shepherd, but she would still recognize him by his beautiful blue eyes, noble features and the commanding tone in which he addressed the sheep. And that, even before he called himself king, they would fall in love on the spot.
«The king rode in on a white horse, that’s true. But the girl was helped up to a guard. Another guard grabbed her spinning wheel. She tried her best to mold a romantic picture out of all this. She wasn’t very successful.
«He remained a frog.
A frog.
“But a very cute frog, isn’t he?” said the mother. — I wouldn't worry if I were you.
— But I don't need a frog! — the girl stubbornly insisted. — I want him to become a prince. He promised.
— Oh, the things men promise...
