Bloom: Sixty Folktales from Around the World That Turn Girls into Women

For twenty-five years, anthropologist and children's author Marita de Sterck has been collecting folk tales from all over the world in which femininity is central. Her sixty favorites are bundled here. Do you want to know what the wolf really did to the beautiful, disobedient girl and when Sleeping Beauty really woke up? How much not only the wolf, but also the great water snake, the tapir, the dolphin, the pig or the moon lust after women's flesh? How Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and the Beast behave on another continent? How people discover how to make love? Why the sexual organs used to be under the armpit?
Marita de Sterck describes how women's bodies are inhabited and captured in language all over the world. Bloei is a story that will move women and men, girls and boys. Always and everywhere.
A book that is as strange and daring as it is beautiful and relevant.
- The Reading Cub
This book is not only a feast for those who love folk tales, it is also a treat for those who like to read juicy and often incredibly imaginative stories that also tell something about the place they come from.
- The Newsblad
Ambiguous, raw, sometimes violent, often erotic stories.
- Fidelity
This book is without precedent in our language area and therefore relevant. The stories, from beautiful to hard, are included.
- Knack
Watch the video of Ambrosia's table in which young people talk about what the stories from Bad Girls Everywhere, folk tales about love and courage, do to them.