Interstellar Cinderella

Description

Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball-but when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stellar happy ending.

Deborah Underwood is the author of The Quiet Book (NYT bestseller and one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010) and The Loud Book. Deborah Underwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. After college, she moved to San Francisco and became a street musician. In 2001, she decided to start writing stories for kids. Meg Hunt is an illustrator, printmaker, educator, and all-around maker of things. She has worked for clients like Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Scholastic, Storey Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Plansponsor, and she recently teamed with Coach to create a work of art inspired by New York City style. This is her first picture book. Find out more about Meg Hunt at meghunt.com.

"Staying on the astro theme, this is a fantastic retelling of the classic story with retro illustrations - set in space! Cinderella wins a tickets to the ball and the prince's attention by fixing his spaceship." -- Women's Engineering Society