Enter a world in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman's heart is alive with courage!  This global feast of ancient tales features valiant women overcoming every kind of obstacle and danger to fulfil their destinies. Travel through Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and the Pacific. Shudder, cheer and laugh out loud as the heroines deal with trolls, faeries, dragons and ghosts; admire their knowledge, wit and cunning; marvel at shapeshifting and other manifestations of the supernatural. A rich collection of fairy tales, beautifully illustrated throughout with Joe McClaren woodcuts, this book is stitched together like a series of Scheherazade stories. It is story-telling at its best, pitch perfect fairy tales of fearless women for readers everywhere.

A folklorist with specialist knowledge of world myths, legends and folk tales, with over 30 years' experience, Rosalind Kerven has written several books in this genre for Batsford (including the best selling English Fairy Tales and Legends), Cambridge University Press, British Library, Oxford University Press, Dorling Kindersley, Pearson, Frances Lincoln, and many educational publishers and her own imprint, Talking Stone. They are highly acclaimed by reviewers, recommended by the American Library Association, and translated into numerous languages. She is an active member of the Folklore Society, giving talks and performance storytelling.