My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Beauty and the Beast

For ages 8-12 years

Holden, what have you done?! It wasn’t enough to ruin Maddie’s report on Cinderella, but now you’ve somehow broken the ACTUAL fairy tale? The ugly stepsister is marrying the prince and there’s no happy ever after! You need to fix this and the only way seems to be by entering the story. But beware: if you can’t mend it, you can never return...

Author Jerry Mahoney — New York, New York

Jerry Mahoney loves books — reading them, writing them, and especially ruining them. He has written  for and ruined television shows, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. He is excited to finally be ruining something as beloved as a fairy tale. He lives in New York with his husband, Drew, and their very silly children.

Illustrator Aleksei Bitskoff — London, England

Aleksei Bitskoff is an Estonia-born British illustrator. He earned a Master’s degree in illustration from Camberwell College of Arts in London. Books he illustrated were finalists for the Children’s Choice Book Award and shortlisted for other Book Awards. Aleksei lives in London with his wife and their young son.