Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales

Hilary McKay is an award-winning author, having won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her first novel, The Exiles, and going on to win the Smarties and the Whitbread (now the Costa) Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings. Her 2018 title The Skylarks' War marks the centenary of the end of the First World War and was the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. It is a classic in the making.Sarah Gibb studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art (now Central Saint Martins) before completing her MA in Illustration at Brighton College of Art. After landing regular spots in the Telegraph and Elle magazine, Sarah went on to illustrate Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series, many classic children's fairy tales and even the Harrods Christmas window display. She lives in Wandsworth, London.

Hilary McKay is back! . . . She's inventive, funny and will always make you laugh . . . the oldest stories given fresh life

• Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: The Tower and the Bird or Rapunzel Chapter - 2: Straw into Gold or Rumpelstiltskin Chapter - 3: The Roses Round the Palace or Cinderella Chapter - 4: The Fountain in the Market Square or The Pied Piper of Hamelin Chapter - 5: Chickenpox and Crystal or Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Chapter - 6: The Prince and the Problem or The Princess and the Pea Chapter - 7: Over the Hills and Far Away or Red Riding Hood and the Piper's Son Chapter - 8: Things Were Different in Those Days or The Twelve Dancing Princesses Chapter - 9: What I Did in the Holidays and Why Hansel's Jacket Is So Tight (by Gretel, aged 10) or Hansel and Gretel Chapter - 10: Sweet William by Rushlight or The Swan Brothers Section - ii: About the Author Section - iii: About the Illustrator Section - iv: Bibliography/Further Reading