Imagine a world in which the heroes are clever, courageous, and kind girls, and young women (not princesses or fairy godmothers) who save themselves and others.
It's a topsy-turvy fairytale world in which Ella (whose stepfamily calls her Cinder-Ella because her apron is always dirty), sews her own fancy ball gown and gets herself to the prince's ball. Princess Meghan outwits the dragon, the troll, and her future in-laws in order to win the hand of her Prince Sunny. And Carla outsmarts the greedy merchant who took advantage of her father, the shoemaker of Palermo.
Bruce Lansky is a best-selling children's poet. He edited the Girls to the Rescue series whose stories provide modern twists to traditional folk and fairy tales. Instead of beautiful but helpless female characters, the girls in these stories are heroes. Some have been adapted from a traditional story, others are original. All the stories in the series were chosen with the help of girls aged 7 to 13.
