Princess Rascal and the Dark Fairy

Elina Hirvonen

Original title: Prinsessa Rämäpää ja mörkötaika

Author: Elina Hirvonen

Illustrator: Mervi Lindman

Published: 2024

Publisher: Tammi

Genre: Picture Books (0-3 Years)

Pages: 44

Part of a series: Princess Rascal series

Reading material:

English sample & synopsis, Finnish edition

Tags:
2020s, Finland, Helsinki, bedtime book, bedtime story, child's perspective, children's literature, father, illustrated book, little brother, mother, ordinary superhero princess girl, power of imagination

A picture book about being scared of the dark

✓ Shows day-to-day challenges of families with children with a lot of warmth and humor

✓ Rights in series sold into 5 languages

Would a crown of courage or a string of pearls with happy things help in the dark?

Beloved Princess Rascal is a little girl with big feelings and magical powers. The popular picture book series continues!

Princess Rascal stays awake all night, because there's a monster under her bed. No one believes that, but Princess Rascal knows it's true. She feels that no one else has such big worries and that no one else is even afraid of anything! Somehow this problem has to be solved: could there be something in Princess Rascal’s toy box that could help?

The Princess Rämäpää series by Elina Hirvonen and Mervi Lindman takes the reader on magical adventures that can be found right in the middle of everyday life, as long as you have enough imagination.

Also available:
Princess Rascal (2017)
Princess Rascal and the Potty Words (2019)
Princess Rascal and the Quarrel Spell (2021)

Everybody quarrels once in a while, no need to be scared of it. The difficult topic of the book never becomes too gloomy, because the solution-oriented Princess Rascal takes action. Mervi Lindman’s delicate and colorful illustrations also maintain positivity.”

– Turun Sanomat newspaper (Princess Rascal and the Quarrel Spell)

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Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)

About author

Elina Hirvonen

Elina Hirvonen is an award-winning Finnish novelist and documentary filmmaker whose work has been translated into multiple languages. Her debut novel When I Forgot was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review and received acclaim from The Independent, The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Globe and Mail.

Hirvonen has been awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Prize and the Nuori Aleksis Prize, and her work has been nominated for the prestigious Finlandia Prize.

Her recent documentary film, The Secret Reading Club of Kabul explores reading, resistance, and inner life under conditions of violence—questions that also resonate at the heart of her latest nove, The Logbook of Beauty.

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