Empowering, thoughtful & beautiful fairy tales!

(that you'll actually want to read)
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Classic fairy tales retold for a modern world!

Fairy Tales Retold's Snow White & Cinderella

"Eine wunderschöne Nacherzählung von Aschenputtel, die darauf abzielt, vielfältiger und integrativer zu sein. Ich liebe es!"

"Ich liebe die Idee und die Ausführung. Es ist ein schönes Buch und ich werde es sicher mehrmals als Geschenk kaufen."

"Das ist eine ganz tolle Idee, weil ich finde, dass es an der Zeit ist mehr Diversität in die traditionellen Geschichten zu bringen."

Empowering Stories

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No more damsels-in-distress waiting helplessly to be saved!

Thoughtful Changes

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Familiar fairy tales with important and subtle differences.

Beautiful Illustrations

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Hand-drawn watercolour illustrations filling each book!

Modern retellings of traditional fairy tales

Modern
retellings of traditional
fairy tales

Fairy Tales Retold takes old classics and gives them a modern twist for today’s world.

The original characters and spirit of each story remain, but the imagery, narrative and values are subtly different.

Gone are damsels in distress and characters waiting to be saved; replaced by exciting tales and new adventures!

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Hours of fun with stunning illusrations!

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Snow White

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the bravest of them all?"

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Cinderella

A new love story

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Beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations

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Classic stories, magically retold!

Modern
retellings of traditional
fairy tales

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Based in Berlin, Fairy Tales Retold takes classic fairy tales and reimagines them for a modern world. Our books, stories and illustrations try to create exciting adventures where characters are empowered and more voices are heard.

The spirit and narrative of classic each fairy tale is familiar, but subtle changes give each story a different meaning. 

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Modern
retellings of traditional
fairy tales

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Our Story

Snow White climbing a tree

Fairy Tales Retold takes old classics and gives them a modern twist for today’s world.

The original characters and spirit of each story remain, but the imagery, narrative and values are subtly different.

Gone are damsels in distress and characters waiting to be saved; replaced by exciting tales and new adventures!

Our Story

The hunter walking through the snow in Fairy Tales Retold's Snow White

Not so long ago, in a city you most likely have heard of and may even have been to, a soon to be middle-aged, balding dad was lying in bed reading good night stories to his little baby daughter.


While lying there with the little one in his arms, he noticed something strange. It seemed that all princesses in these fairy tales needed to be saved and that their most important characteristic was their beauty...

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Other Projects

As well as our own books, we've written an audio series for Mytheresa, read by the likes of Munroe Bergdorf, April Kae and Toni Garrn. 

We've worked delivered workshops and hosted events, as well as opening a small pop-up store in East Berlin for a few months in 2022. To learn more about our work, see the link below.

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The Prince riding on a horse in Fairy Tales Retold's Snow White

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