A review by veecaswell
Power to the Princess: 15 Favorite Fairytales Retold with Girl Power by Vita Murrow

4.0

A collection of fairytales retold in a feminist way, Vita Weinstein Murrow brings something new to these classic stories and they make for some inspired and captivating reading.

The representation Vita brings to these stories is fantastic and diverse. ‘The Little Mermaid’ is a story about Hans Cristian Andersen dealing with his own love for a man so the fact the writer takes this story and allows for two princesses to fall in love is just something I love in this book and for me one of the many highlights. The representation covers disability, people of colour and LGBT people and it’s just so impressive to me as the reader.

I also enjoy how empowered these characters become or are built to be. In stories such as ‘Zade and the 1001 Ideas’ or ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ we see the women become a business partner and inventor and a Forest Ranger which sees Little Red become a forest conservationist and protecting wolves from humans. I love the idea of little girls hearing these stories and becoming their own kind of princess.

To paraphrase Frances Hodgson Burnett, all girls are princesses and it’s books like this that enable all girls to see that. Some beautiful retellings of stories of my childhood combined with great illustrations that brings these stories to life, I really enjoyed this book.

(I received an ARC from Netgalley for honest review).