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Fierce Fairytales

Fierce Fairytales 1

A perfect feminist gift book

by Nikita Gill
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/09/2020
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Beautifully illustrated feminist fairytales for young and old.

Reimagining traditional tales, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.

Gone are the gender stereotypes of obliging lovers, violent men and girls that need rescuing. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains and you'll meet brave princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle and a courageous Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.

ISBN:
9781409181590
9781409181590
Category:
Myth & legend told as fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-09-2020
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
202x136x20mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River (Thought Catalog), Your Heart is the Sea (Thought Catalog), Wild Embers (Trapeze), Fierce Fairytales (Trapeze) and Great Goddesses (Ebury).

She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! (Macmillan’s Children’s Books) and her next book, a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published by Ebury on National Poetry Day 2020.

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This book would have been better titled: Life Is Pain & Men Will Inflict It.

Like many others have said before me, I'm not entirely sure what I expected from this book, but this wasn't it. I suppose when I read 'Fierce', I thought 'powerful & strong' but the author was more true to its definition of ferociously aggressive. For me, she wrote as though being wounded, bitter, vengeful and man-hating was to be a strong woman. If that sits well with you, the prose will likely resonate, but for myself it was bleak and sad. I didn't feel like the author truly re-wrote fairy tales either; it was more like she name-dropped a few for the sake of anchoring what would otherwise be a fairly incohesive set of stories. Somewhat paradoxically though, they contained inanely repetitive imagery.

This isn't a re-imagined fairy tale story book I'd like to envisage being read to daughters or sons, young or grown.

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