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Bethan Woollvin.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1992

Bethan Woollvin: British picture-book maker of fractured fairytales (Little Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel) — limited-palette, graphically sharp, feminist-edged retellings for ages 4–8.

Bethan Woollvin is a British author-illustrator born in 1992, best known for her fractured-fairytale picture books, Little Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Three Little Wolves, Bo and the Merboys, that subvert traditional tale endings with a graphically distinctive limited-palette style (usually black, white, red and one accent colour). Woollvin's heroines are sharp-edged, agentive and not at all interested in being rescued; the Wolf in Little Red gets eaten, Rapunzel deals with the witch herself. The books have strong feminist edge without being preachy, and serious visual identity. Macmillan Prize winner. A reliable picture-book maker for ages 4–8, particularly for children who want fairy tales with a twist.