A modern fairy tale for the smart reader - the precocious child and the clever adult. What if the thing you're most insecure about is what saved the world? The most embarrassing secret Tilda Pinkerton, the magical hat maker, keeps hidden from the children she teaches - is her most miraculous gift. The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton is a story of inter-galactic crisis with bionic bugs on a mission to capture the great Tilda Pinkerton and destroy her magical hats before she can spread her Light across the galaxy. Written in a wonderfully lyrical way that will appeal to fans of Dr. Seuss, Star Trek, Matilda Wormwood, and Harry Potter with every character's name being a verbal play on their personalities. Quinn, for example, is Quinn Quisquilious, who works with rubbish to create new things. Belinda Balletomania is just that - obsessed with ballet. And of course Aaron Arachnophobia is the spider desperately afraid of himself. SYNOPSIS: Somewhere out in the Sombrero Galaxy, Tilda Pinkerton--mystical maker of mysterious, magnificent, magical hats--is being hunted by the Keeper of Darkness. Yet Tilda does not recall anything at all, after a tremendous fall. No one on Ooleeoo, where Tilda crash-landed, knows she is from another planet. Only Star Jumper Randy can tell her-but he's light years away, frantically searching for his missing love, desperate that without her, the entire galaxy soon may be lost. Even in the middle of cosmic danger, Tilda loves to create hats, for which she has a rare and uncanny knack. All who receive them sparkle, in fact-and spark their innermost talent. With a Tilda hat, people can suddenly do whatever they dream of, causing brilliant ideas to grow madly. With Gladys the toad, who thinks she's a cat, and Frank the fish, who lives in her hat, Tilda must discover who she is and what her enemy wants from her so badly. But the Mayor of Moodle has other plans, including a ban on all wearing of hats, everywhere on Ooleeoo. His dark and forbidding actions coincide with something unworldly, threatening all and turning Ooleeoo upside down, literally. In this first in a series of Tilda Pinkerton adventures, Tilda must fight the battle of her life and risk all-even the galaxy and stars-by revealing her most electrifying secret. The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton is a delightful read for all ages and a must have for stargazers, astronomy nerds, word-geeks, book lovers, and anyone who has a hat.