By Deborah Underwood
Cinderella in space, where the girl who dreams of fixing rockets saves the prince's ship instead of losing a slipper.
In a galaxy far away, Cinderella would rather fix spaceships than go to any ball. When her fairy godrobot appears, she heads to the prince's gravity-free party, and when his rocket breaks down mid-flight, it's Cinderella who repairs it, then races off at curfew and leaves behind not a glass slipper but a socket wrench.
For the princess fan who also loves rockets and tools, this is the perfect two-in-one. It's got the whole familiar Cinderella shape, ball, fairy magic, a dropped clue, a searching prince, but Cinderella wins by being clever with a wrench, and turns down the wedding for the job she actually wants. The rhyme bounces along, the pictures are bright and full of gadgets, and the ending gets a delighted laugh.