Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates
By (Author) Cassandra Federman
Illustrated by Cassandra Federman
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
14th May 2025
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Adventurers and outlaws
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
741.5973
Paperback
208
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 13mm
415g
The Princess Bride meets Raina Telgemeiers Sisters in this middle grade graphic novel about two sisters who must put aside their differences to soothe their new baby sister with the best bedtime story ever, proving to their parentsand each otherthat they can get along.
Big sister Kennedy and little sister Devon couldnt be more different. Their shared room has a clear divide down the middle. On one, musical theaterloving Kennedy keeps things tidy. On the other, heavy metal fan Devon looks like she lives in an exploded toy store. When baby sister Eve moves in, her contribution is crying. Constant. Ear-piercing. Crying.
The added stress pushes the older girls to their breaking point, and they get into their biggest fight yet. In response, Mom and Dad crack down, seizing all beloved electronics until Kennedy and Devon can find a way to get along. Now stuck together with no distractions except Eves screaming, the two land on a desperate solution: tell Eve a bedtime story so epic that it puts her to sleep and gets her big sisters out of trouble.
Pizza aside, the only thing the girls have in common is their love of stories. But Kennedys fairy tales make Devon want to barf, and Devons nonsensical adventure stories make Kennedy want to tear her hair out. So they try to mash-up a story of true love, adventure, princesses, pirates, pirate-princesses, dragons, spiders, andgarbage trucks
Thats a lot of story to spin. Will their hilarious fairy tale remix solidify their sisterly bond or break it forever after
Cassandra Federman was born and raised in Massachusetts, where she spent her childhood reading comic books, playing action figures, drawing superheroes, and participating in all things nerdy (before that became cool). She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University, where she cofounded the Brandeis Comic Book Club. After college she moved to Los Angeles and worked in film and television. Over the course of her life, Cassandra has been many thingsa hand model, a wrestler, a manatee rescuer, an actor, and a mystic wood elfbut her favorite so far has been a childrens book author-illustrator.Cassandra is the author-illustrator of the picture booksThis Is a Sea CowandThis Is a Seahorse, which received multiple starred reviews and won an ILA Childrens and Young Adults Book Award. She is also the author-illustrator of the graphic novelThe Story Spinners. Visit her online at CassandraFederman.com.