It's Princess Cosma's birthday, and her best friend Princess Nebula has planned an enchanted star search through space! But what will Princess Nebula do when one of the stars is missing? Will the birthday surprise be ruined?

Winner of the 2023 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Book Award 2022 Longlist Nominee for the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of “primary science fiction,” or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science fiction for children is often disregarded due to common misconceptions of childhood. When children are culturally portrayed as natural and simple, they seem like a poor audience for the complex scientific questions brought up by the best science fiction. The books and the children who read them tell another story. Using three empirical studies and over 350 children’s books including If I Had a Robot Dog, Bugs in Space, and Commander Toad in Space, Equipping Space Cadets presents interdisciplinary evidence that science fiction and children are compatible after all. Primary science fiction literature includes many high-quality books that cleverly utilize the features of children’s literature formats in order to fit large science fiction questions into small packages. In the best of these books, authors make science fiction questions accessible and relevant to children of various reading levels and from diverse backgrounds and identities. Equipping Space Cadets does not stop with literary analysis, but also presents the voices of real children and practitioners. The book features three studies: a survey of teachers and librarians, quantitative analysis of lending records from school libraries across the United States, and coded read-aloud sessions with elementary school students. The results reveal how children are interested in and capable of reading science fiction, but it is the adults, including the most well-intentioned librarians and teachers, who hinder children's engagement with the genre due to their own preconceptions about the genre and children.

Meet the princesses.A trained diplomat, kidnapped by an alien race desperate for justice, and its dashing leader...A political pawn, on her way to meet her betrothed, who stops in the asteroid belt to answer a call for help, and finds a princess both beautiful and brave...A captive raised to believe that the greatest evil is magic, when it--and the handsome ship's engineer who wields it--are the one thing that might save her...Here are their stories.

Put on your space helmet and adventure through the universe with Space Princess Maggie and her robot navigator KX505.

In space, no one can hear you laugh! Writer Ian Flynn (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and artist Tracy Yardley (Sonic Universe, Hero Cats) revitalize COSMO THE MERRY MARTIAN as part of the Archie Action line-up, bringing the classic 1950s space alien into the present day in an all-new series! Get ready for out of this world fun in the ALL-NEW sci-fi adventure series COSMO! Join Cosmo and his Space-Ace Martian crew as they find adventure and dangers in the deepest corners of space! Their latest mission turns into a much larger adventure when they stumble upon their most unique specimen yet: A panicked human!

Asteria is an alien princess from the planet of Caprites, where she resides in her room listening to the sounds of the galaxy with her computer. However, every year, she hears the same jingling sounds from a certain blue planet and her curiosity gets the best of her. Hijacking a spacecraft from her planet's fleet, she travels across several light-years with her pet companion until she comes across earth. Here, she meets two girls and their family and learns about the jingling sounds she has been hearing. She soon learns that these sounds are from what the humans call Christmas. Her visit is put in jeopardy when one of the human neighbors sees her use one of her alien abilities and alerts the human authorities. With the help of the two girls and their family, Asteria plans her escape from earth before her own family invades the blue planet to retrieve her.