Annet Schaap

A determined girl gives up on kissing a frog. A fearless heroine comes face-to-face with a not-so Big Bad Wolf. A monstrous princess, held captive on a deserted island, yearns to break free. Within this book are seven famous fairy tales turned into enchanting, inspiring and sometimes hair-raising stories for today's world, about girls with their own dreams and desires....

A girl comes face-to-face with a not-so Big Bad Wolf, a monstrous princess is locked away on a deserted island, a girl gives up on kissing a frog: Annet Schaap adapts seven well-known fairy tales into inspiring stories about girls with their own dreams and desires. These are no damsels in distress, but real girls of flesh and blood -...

Every evening, Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, must light a lantern to warn ships away from the rocks. But one stormy night, disaster strikes. The lantern goes out, a ship is wrecked, and an adventure begins. In disgrace, Lampie is sent to work as a maid at the Admiral's Black House, where rumour has it that a monster lurks in...