In their first summer apart, both siblings have to find their own place in the world - and each other - before a fantastical transformation splits their family apart.

Orr, meanwhile, has already escaped camp and fallen for an all-girls punk band, moving into the closet of their ramshackle pink house. Determined to find him, Iph runs away only to cross paths with a bicycle riding, queer Robin Hood, who offers her a place to hide out while she searches for her brother. Iph has always tried to protect her sensitive younger brother, Orr, but this summer their father has decided its high time for him to toughen up at boot camp. In early ’90s Portland, two siblings are torn apart. And with Pride Month in full swing, take a moment to something magical, timeless, and altogether new with one of must-read queer retellings. Whatever your favorite fairytale, whatever sort of love story you hope to read, there really is a story for everyone. These books feature a wide assortment of identities across the LGBTQ spectrum. Girls falling for fae, queens falling for princesses, and boys waking the prince of their dreams with true love’s kiss - those are the kinds of stories you’ll find in the beautiful assortment of fairytale retellings below.

These 30 must-read queer fairytale retellings are a pretty good place to start, if you ask me. With new characters and romances and representation, people who never connected to the original fairy tales can finally see themselves in these stories. And I especially love seeing authors bring those stories to modern audiences.

Maybe it’s because we’re raised on animated adaptations and picture books that these stories are so ingrained in us, but they really are an indelible feature of storytelling that connects hundreds of stories over hundreds of years. Stories of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White are such cultural touchpoints that they can be used to create really remarkable and compelling tales, just with the threads of a fairytale twisted around to create something new.

There are few things I love more than a good fairytale retelling.

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