Every little girl goes through her princess phase whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella Belle or Ariel But then we grow up And life is not a fairy taleChristine Heppermanns collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl With piercing truths reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins this is a powerful and provocative book for every young woman E Lockhart author of We Were Liars calls it a bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth thats caustic funny and heartbreakingCruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers but also from ourselves There are expectations pressures judgment and criticism Self-doubt and self-confidence But there are also friends and sisters and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking In fifty poems Christine Heppermann confronts society head on Using fairy tale characters and tropes Poisoned Apples explores how girls are taught to think about themselves their bodies and their friends The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales and from deadly funny to deadly serious Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured shared and paged through again and again.
