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CeeCee
  • Published: 10 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781623543891
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $42.00

CeeCee

Underground Railroad Cinderella

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12 Aug 2025
Hardback
10 Sept 2025
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A Cinderella retelling with a young enslaved girl in the title role. On a Maryland plantation, CeeCee’s story doesn’t end with a prince, but a different type of rescue.

By author-to-watch Shana Keller and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honor and NAACP Image Award winner Laura Freeman, this classic fairy tale reimagined is one you won’t soon forget.

A Cinderella retelling with a young enslaved girl in the title role. On a Maryland plantation, CeeCee’s story doesn’t end with a prince, but a different type of rescue.

By author-to-watch Shana Keller and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honor and NAACP Image Award winner Laura Freeman, this classic fairy tale reimagined is one you won’t soon forget.

CeeCee is a young enslaved girl growing up alongside the two spoiled daughters she must work for on a plantation in Maryland. She takes care of them, catering to their every whim and suffering their casual cruelty. She learns to read by listening to their lessons and stories with the threat of punishment if caught.

CeeCee receives help from the caring cook, Binty, and hope comes in the form of a different kind of escape. CeeCee chances everything for the possibility of a new life.

While many are familiar with the traditional Cinderella story, this retelling is sure to empower and uplift a new generation of young readers.
  • Published: 10 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781623543891
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $42.00
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About the authors

Laura Freeman

Laura Freeman is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, for which she won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and NAACP Image Award. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and has illustrated over thirty children’s books, including Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice and The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice. She lives with her family in Atlanta.
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Praise for CeeCee

Praise for Do You Know Them? Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

  • "A simply written, moving picture book."--Booklist, starred review
  •  "Centers the roles of hard work, sacrifice, literacy, and community in the tasks of finding family after the historical and intergenerational traumas of American slavery."--School Library Journal
  • "A riveting lesson on Reconstruction."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Praise for Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
  • Honor Book, Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, Bank Street College of Education
  • "Shana Keller does a beautiful job of weaving together a nonfiction narrative that allows readers a glimpse into the early life of Fredrick Douglass."--Picture Books for Learning