about the book
Cinderella spends her days tinkering with her evil step-mother’s old appliances, dreaming of the day when she can prove herself as a great space mechanic. Her only friend is a robotic mouse called Murgatroyd, and when her step-mother and evil step-sisters leave her behind on the day of the Royal Space Parade, it is up to interstellar Cinderella to grab her tools and fix up an old ship so that she, too, can partake in the celebration.
Pink hair flying and big, goggle-covered eyes blazing, Cinderella fixes up her ship and is granted a visit by her Fairy God-robot. She is given a beautifully jeweled outfit, and shoots through the stars on the way to the parade.
When the prince’s ship breaks down, however, this is Cinderella’s big shot! She zooms to him and busts out her tools, fixing his spaceship in a jiffy. While she works, Cinderella and the prince form a friendship—in the end, marriage is proposed, but the space pair may not end up together as they do in the traditional tale…!
about the author
Deborah Underwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington, with her math professor dad, her English teacher mom, and her sister who got all her papa’s math smarts. Luckily Deborah inherited her mom’s word sense.
Deborah had big dreams. She wanted to work in a piano factory, putting labels on new pianos. She also wanted to be an astronomer, a singer, and a writer. Two of these careers actually worked out! After graduating from college, she became a street musician. Since that wasn’t the best paying gig, she took a job typing for accountants. Really, she stealthily spent her time writing screenplays. As long as she muttered “Criminy!” often enough, everyone thought she was working on really tough accounting memos and left her alone.
She also tried writing books. Who knew it was so hard! Luckily, each time she decided to give up and hunt for a job putting labels on new pianos, her friends talked her into writing more.
When she finally started to pen nonfiction books for children, things took off. Publishers asked for books about things she knew absolutely nothing about, like small pox and orangutans. She did lots of research and now she knows a lot about a lot of cool things, like slurping Japanese noodles and ball room dancing. Currently she writes it all—picture books, easy readers, chapter books and nonfiction books. She is especially good at writing silly stuff.
Deborah lives in northern California with her muse, a cat named Bella. When she is not writing, she sings with a chamber choir, plays the ukulele, feeds the squirrels in Golden Gate Park, bakes vegan cookies …and acts silly!
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Author website
Also by Deborah Underwood:
Good Night, Baddies. Beach Lane Books. 2016.
Here Comes Valentine Cat. Dial. 2016.
Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat. Dial 2015.
Here Comes the Easter Cat. Dial. 2014.
Here Comes Santa Cat. Dial. 2014.
Bad Bye, Good Bye. HMH Books for Young Readers. 2014.
Part-Time Princess. Hyperion Press. 2013.
The Christmas Quiet Book. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012.
The Quiet Book. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2012.
The Loud Book. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011.
A Balloon for Isabel. Greenwillow. 2010.
about the illustrator
Meg Hunt is an award-winning illustrator and educator originally from New London, Connecticut. As a child, she said she was “shy, nerdy, [and] a total bookworm.” While growing up, she wanted to be either an animator or to work with The Jim Henson Company as a Muppeteer! She always found herself inspired by a number of different sources including Mr. Henson’s creations, and by the beautiful work of National Geographic.
Meg graduated from the University of Connecticut, where she studied printmaking and illustration. Since then she has worked designing storybook illustrations and lettering. She has worked for companies like Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Disneyland, Time Out New York, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Threadless. Her next goals are to learn about stop-motion, and to try her hand at designing gift cards, stationary, and animations!
When she isn’t working, Meg enjoys reading, playing the ukulele, walking her dog, cooking, shopping at thrift stores, talking with friends, and checking out local museums. Today Meg lives in luscious, green Portland, Oregon.
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