Cinderella Smith: A Funny Chapter Book for Kids (Ages 6-10) About School, Best Friends, and Dance Recitals

by Stephanie Barden, Diane Goode (Illustrator)

Cinderella Smith has a problem with a capital P. She loses shoes almost as quickly as she puts them on her feet. But now she’s lost the most important shoe of all: her shiny,ruby red tap shoe. Without it shewon’t have a chance of being chosen Pumpkin Blossom Fairy for the fall dance recital—and that means no special tutu, no crown, and no solo!

The school year is starting out with big problems too. Her new teacher laughs at her name, she’s sitting at the smart-boys table, and her old best friend is ignoring her. Now the new girl, Erin, has asked for her advice on wicked stepsisters. And Cinderelladoesn’t have stepsisters—wicked or otherwise!

The recital is just around the corner and the stepsisters are on their way.Can Cinderella and Erin solve the capital P problems in time?

165 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2011

About the author

In between tripping over abandoned shoes, chasing after escaped pets and searching for lost belongings, Stephanie Barden wrote Cinderella Smith, her first book. HarperCollins will publish Cinderella Smith and the More the Merrier in spring of 2012. A third Cinderella Smith book, as yet untitled, will come out in 2013. When she's not writing, Stephanie teaches classes at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle where she lives with her husband, Tom, son, Joe, and 80-pound lap dog, Otis.