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The Restless Girls
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Description
"A riveting feminist retelling, filled with excitement, imagination, magic, and just the right touch of darkness." -Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe
From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jessie Burton comes her debut middle-grade--a girl-forward fairy tale retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" about sisterhood, imagination, and bravery, lushly packaged and with beautiful full-color illustrations.
For the twelve daughters of King Alberto, Queen Laurelia's death is a disaster beyond losing a mother. The king decides his daughters must be kept safe at all costs, and for the girls, those costs include their lessons, their possessions, and most importantly, their freedom.
But the sisters, especially the eldest, Princess Frida, will not bend to this fate. She still has one possession her father cannot take: the power of her imagination. And so, with little but wits and ingenuity to rely on, Frida and her sisters begin their fight to be allowed to live on their own terms.
The Restless Girls is a sparkling whirl of a fairy tale--one that doesn't need a prince to save the day, and instead is full of brave, resourceful, clever young women.
Product details
| Published | Mar 05 2019 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 160 |
| ISBN | 9781547602773 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Children's Books |
| Illustrations | full color throughout |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A riveting feminist retelling, filled with excitement, imagination, magic, and just the right touch of darkness. These twelve fierce heroines will be a pleasure to return to again and again.
Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of CIRCE
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The Restless Girls is wild, wise, generous, ferocious kind of story. It's a tale to read to your children (of both genders) over and over, and for them to read to theirs. It's a book that glows.
Katherine Rundell, author of THE WOLF WILDER and THE EXPLORER
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[A] story of female empowerment, agency and sisterhood. . . . 'The Restless Girls' is one of the prettiest books I've seen in a long time. Barrett's artwork is exquisite, and provides another layer to the story that is not explicitly in the text.
The New York Times Book Review
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The richly described settings . . . make this a fine read aloud . . . with a feminist viewpoint.
School Library Journal
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A richly imagined feminist fairy tale, laden with allusions to contemporary concerns about autonomy, gender roles, and power dynamics, that is extended in Barrett's lush scenes of the clever sisters and their revels.
Publishers Weekly
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A modern twist on a classic fairy tale
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