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Rumaysa: A Fairytale is a magically fresh, empowering and funny debut, which retells three classic fairytales – Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty – with beautiful inside illustrations by Rhaida El Touny and cover illustration by Areeba Siddique. Mon: closedTue: 10am-6pmWed: 10am-6pmThu: 10am-9pmFri: 10am-9pmSat: 10am-6pm Radiya Hafiza's enchanting and funny debut weaves together three stories, spinning the classic fairytale to show that anyone can be a hero. Author(s): Hafiza, Radiya, Touny, Rhaida El, Siddique, Areeba, Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 01/04/2021, Pagination: 240 pages, Series: N/A, Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books, Published By: PAN MACMILLAN , Book Classification: Children's, young adult & educational, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529038309 Born from a love of vintage fashion, Motel is the must-have label for girls who want unique, edgy and eclectic additions to their wardrobe that are guaranteed to make an impact! Rumaysa: A Fairytale is a magically fresh, empowering and funny debut, which retells three classic fairytales - Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty - with beautiful inside illustrations by Rhaida El Touny and cover illustration by Areeba Siddique. Written by: Radiya HafizaIllustrated by:Rhaida El TounyFormat: Paperback / softback 'For as long as she can remember Rumaysa has been locked away in her tower, forced to spin straw into gold for the evil Witch, unable to leave.
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Jessica Claire
In ‘Rumaysa’ the heroine speaks of her love of books and how they have bought her knowledge and comfort. Rumaysa also talks about how reading ‘A Thousand and One Nights’ has bought her comfort becuse it contains people of her colour and culture. For example, when someone arrives at Rumaysa’s tower looking to save a damsel, she is already in the midst of escaping!
I think this ideal is damaging for young girls who are taught to believe that they cannot be complete without a counterpart. Now, little girls will hopefully grow up wanting to lift each other up and be content in the knowledge that they are enough.
This echoes the importance of a diverse re-telling of classic tales so that every child no matter their colour or culture can feel valued by their heritage and reassured by heroes and heroines like them. Her heroines don’t need a knight in shining white armour to save them; they are more than capable of saving themselves, flipping the damsel in distress into the damsel in determination. One of the best attributes of the book is the humour.
This edgy humour that scrutinises the tropes of fairy tales and makes us view them under the microscope of modern culture, allows us to laugh at the old, patriarchal tropes we have come to know and love. As a little girl I think I found it hard growing up and fixating on the idea that there would one day be a prince to sweep me off of my feet. Radiya has spun a re-telling of three classic fairytales: Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, transforming them into: Rumaysa, Cinderayla and Sleeping Sara.
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