Edith Format: Trade Hardcover

Edith was born at a time of magic and fairies. As a newborn she received two gifts: the ability to bring any object to life and eternal childhood. That’s why today, 100 years later, Edith is celebrating her centenary as a ten-year-old. What will she wish for this time? Perhaps a new friend. Certainly a new life―being ten forever has its downside.

On her birthday, Edith sets off to find the fairy who bewitched her and reverse the spell. She takes her only friends, a wise dog and a talking lemon, to find herself a future she can live with.

Fully illustrated in color, this one-of-a-kind chapter book bursts with good things: the dry wit of a faithful dog, a fairytale adventure, camping, boating, friendship and danger, and a question that matters.

Catharina Valckx was born in 1957 in De Bilt, Netherlands. She grew up in France with four sisters and now lives in Amsterdam. Catharina has been nominated five times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, most recently in 2025. Her books are published in seventeen languages and have won numerous awards, and her most successful titles have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in France alone.