Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles including a picture book about remembering a loved one’s past, a picture book showcasing a spacecraft’s journey, a picture book retelling of “Cinderella,” and more.

Before She Was My Grandmother by Giselle Potter. Enchanted Lion, $19.99; ISBN 978-1-5927-0431-6. The young narrator of this intimate-feeling picture book cherishes time with her attentive grandmother, Alice—especially when the woman brings out a box of treasured mementos.

Cassini’s Mission: A Spacecraft, a Tiny Moon, and the Search for Life Beyond Earth by Katie Venit, illus. by Julia Blattman. MIT, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5362-3232-5. The book chronicles in spare, crisp language how robotic spacecraft Cassini was equipped for her seven-year journey to Saturn with instruments that could detect the essential elements of life. The picture book received a starred review from PW.

Ceecee: Underground Railroad Cinderella by Shana Keller, illus. by Laura Freeman. Charlesbridge, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-623-54389-1. In riveting prose, Keller pens an engaging “Cinderella” variation about a girl, enslaved in Maryland, for whom layered stories offer freedom. The picture book received a starred review from PW.

Incredibly Penelope by Lauren Myracle. Walker US, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-5362-0606-7. In this reimagining of A Little Princess, celebrity nine-year-old Penelope Goodheart is enrolled at the Idlewild Academy for Girls, when suddenly her godmother and mother disappear. Taking advantage of the pair’s presumed deaths and citing her godmother’s frozen assets, cruel headmistress Mrs. Grimsley strips Penelope of all luxuries and forces her to live in a rat-infested, possibly haunted basement.

The Interrupted Plans of Mango and Nan by Hala Tahboub. Clarion, $19.99; ISBN 978-0-0632-5421-3. In this freewheeling adventure, Mango and Nan plan to head out for vanilla ice cream—until they hear a “plop” that Nan identifies as a leaky tap and the duo refuse to let the water go to waste.

Marisol Acts the Part by Elle Gonzalez Rose. Joy Revolution, $19.99 hardcover; ISBN 978-0-593-90052-9; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-90051-2. When 18-year-old actor Marisol is cast in a new show with her ex-boyfriend Miles, who has just dumped her, she navigates an unexpected crush on Miles’s on-screen love interest, Jamila.

The Memory Spinner by C.M. Cornwell. Delacorte, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-593-89876-5. Medicinal apprentice Lavender has been experiencing peculiar memory lapses and turns to a sorcerer for help. But there is a price Lavender must pay: one that may doom her home, Hattertown.

The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor, illus. by Tana Ford. First Second, $22.99 hardcover; ISBN 978-1-250-81747-1; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-81748-8. Previous collaborators Okorafor and Ford spin an elaborate tale told through the fictionalized perspective of the author’s real-life temperamental and territorial cat Pumpernickel Pickle Periwinkle Chukwu Okorafor, or Periwinkle, imagined as hailing from Neptune.

White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum. Roaring Brook, $24.99; ISBN 978-1-250-81657-3. In this searing account, Bausum dissects the “series of lies” that represented the beliefs of the Confederate States of America known as the Lost Cause, following the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. The nonfiction book received a starred review from PW.

Whoa Panda! by C.S. Jennings. Penguin/Paulsen, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-5933-2478-3. Excitable squat Little Panda learns to navigate boundaries as the narrator introduces a new puppy.

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