The Australian Women's Weekly

FAIRYTALES FOR FEISTY GIRLS

- by Susannah McFarlane, Allen & Unwin

Four familiar fairytales are given the McFarlane “tilt” as four “smarts” – Rapunzel (she with long tresses), Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and (acornsized) Thumbelina – are allowed to vent their vocals. Prince Charming gets it in the neck for the royal sport of hunting and the “ugly” sisters are straight off RuPaul’s Drag

Race. Sher Rill Nig’s Thumbelina illustrati­ons are utterly divine.

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