Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls

This handy reader format of the bestselling Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls series, brings together 15 inspiring stories retold by multi award-winning author Anita Ganeri and illustrated in full-color by Khoa Le.

This fairy tale collection showcases narratives that celebrate strong, independent women. These heroines aren't reduced to being wives or witches! They run free and possess the qualities we would hope for in our daughters and friends: self-confidence, strength, wits, courage, fearlessness, and independence. These empowering tales will inspire little readers to dream big and live their happily ever after in their own way.

These stories include:
• Brave Woman Counts Coup (US/White River Sioux)
• Atalanta the Huntress (Greece)
• Nana Miriam (Niger)
• Fitcher's Bird (Germany)
• The Girl and the Puma (Argentina)
• Mizilca (Romania)
• The Pirate Princess (Poland/Jewish)
• The Samurai Maiden (Japan)
• Molly Whuppie (England)

These incredible stories will capture the hearts and minds of young readers everywhere. Ideal for children aged 8+.

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author (2010 Joy Tivy Education Medal, 2009 Blue Peter Book Award, 2008 Geographical Association Highly Commended Award, 2007 Practical Pre-School Award) of children's books, writing on a range of topics, from Ancient Romans to evolution. She also specializes in retelling traditional tales, from different cultures, countries and perspectives.

Based in Vietnam, Khoa Le is the author and illustrator of numerous picture books. She has worked with many top publishers, including Hachette and Usbourne and in 2020, she won best illustrator for the Northern Lights Book Awards. Khoa also works as a graphic designer and painter and has participated in many exhibitions in different Asian countries.