Cinderelliot A Scrumptious Fairytale

A 2023 ALA Rainbow Book List Book!

A gay retelling of the classic fairy tale--a scrumptious love story featuring ungrateful stepsiblings, a bake-off, and a fairy godfather.

Cinderelliot is stuck at home taking care of his ungrateful stepsister and stepbrother. When Prince Samuel announces a kingdom-wide competition to join the royal staff as his baker, the stepsiblings insist that Cinderelliot bake their entries, leaving no time for he, himself, to compete. Fairy Godfather Ludwig appears and magically helps Cinderelliot bake his best chocolate cake, clean up, and get to the competition via limo. At the bake-off, Prince Samuel falls in love with Cinderelliot's cake, but our hero has to run off as the clock strikes midnight, leaving behind his chef hat. The next day, Prince Samuel searches the kingdom for the owner of the hat and finds that it fits perfectly on Cinderelliot's head. The prince is delighted to find not only his new baker but also the man of his dreams, and Cinderelliot creates a magnificent wedding cake--and the two live scrumptiously ever after.
 

Mark Ceilley earned his MFA in writing for children and young adults from Hamline University. He's written for Spider magazine and has served as a judge for the Minnesota Book Awards. He's an active member of SCBWI and is a reading intervention teacher in St. Paul, MN, where he lives with his husband. This is his first picture book.

Rachel Smoka-Richardson earned her MFA in writing for children and young adults, from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of SCBWI and has served as a judge for the Minnesota Book Awards. She is the General Management Assistant at the Guthrie Theater and lives in Minneapolis, MN< with her pilot husband Dan and their two sweet rescue dogs, Charlotte and Hazel. This is her first picture book.

Stephanie Laberis is a California-based artist and RISD alumna, specializing in kidlit illustration and character design for animation. Her childhood spent in the woods of New England sparked her love for animals and the natural world, a favorite subject of her artwork. When she's not drawing, Steph volunteers at her local wildlife hospital or spends quality time with her beloved cats, rats, and mice.