FEARLESS FAIRY TALES

A hilarious and anarchic collection of classic bedtime stories for young readers | all utterly updated for a new generation. Meet Trumplestiltskin | a vain and gold-obsessed little man who will stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There's Sleeping Brainy | the princess whose only dream is to become Chancellor of the Exchequer | and the Gingerbread Kid | who escapes persecution in his home country but struggles to fit in in his new one. You won't forget the lingering stench of Mouldysocks - a boy obsessed with staring at his iPad but rather less obsessed with personal hygiene - and you'll be rooting for Rap-Unzel when she gets the chance of fame by appearing on Kingdom's Got Talent . . . but at what cost? Packed with stories about boys who aren't afraid to cry and rhymes about girls who refuse to kiss frogs | FEARLESS FAIRY TALES shakes up dusty | old-fashioned (and | to be honest | rather sexist) bedtime stories and totally reinvents them for the twenty-first century. From fake news to female footballers | environmental pollution to equal pay | nothing is off limits in this anthology of laugh-out-loud fairy tales with thoroughly modern morals. Told in the fresh | vibrant and unique voice of Blue Peter favourite Konnie Huq | writing with James Kay | and packed full of irresistible illustrations by Rikin Parekh | FEARLESS FAIRY TALES is the perfect hardback gift for young readers (and older readers fed up with serving their kids the same old boring bedtime stories).