Move over, Jack the Giant- Killer, Prince Charming. and all the other heroes of our most familiar folk and fairy tales. Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines, girls and women with as much courage, wit, and intelligence as their better-known male counterparts. From Li Chi, who battles a fierce serpent to save her townspeople, to the old women sly enough to outwit even the devil, the heroines in these tales prove their mettle and pluck, and do it on their own terms.
Caldecott Medal winner Trina Schart Hyman and her daughter, author Katrin Tchana, have together crafted an exquisite anthology for mothers to share with daughters, sisters to share with sisters, and families to share with each other, now and for generations to come.
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Katrin Tchana has been a Peace Corps volunteer, a waitress, a teacher, a housecleaner, a writer, and a crisis counselor. She has lived in Maine, Morocco, Cameroon, and New York City. She now lives in her grandmother's house in Thetford, Vermont, with her husband, her two sons, two cats, and two rabbits.
Trina Schart Hyman won the Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges. She has also illustrated Snow White, translated by Paul Heins, and her own retelling of The Sleeping Beauty. Trina Schart Hyman lives and works in Lyme, New Hampshire.
—from the dust jacket
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