What girl didn't (or doesn't) dream of being an Olympic figure skater? It's like the pinnacle of girly fantasy. Beautiful dance moves, sparkling costumes, and the eyes of the entire world focused on you for that moment in time. Wow.
Wanna know what else girls dream about becoming? Cinderella. And that's funny because today's bonus prize allows readers to do just that. An ARC of THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY by Kay Cassidy. Here is the blurb:
When the Prom Queen becomes your fairy godmother…
Sixteen year old outsider, Jess Parker, gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation to join a secret girl power society dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. The Cinderella Society guides all new recruits through its top secret ultimate life makeover. It’s all part of preparing them to face down the Wickeds and win. Determined not to let the Cindys down, Jess dives in with a passion. Finally, a chance to belong and show the world what she’s made of.
… be careful what you wish for.
Jess’s transformation wins her the heart of her dream crush and a shot at uber-popularity. Until the Wickeds–led by Jess’s arch enemy–begin targeting innocent girls in their war against the Cindys, and Jess discovers the real force behind her exclusive society. It’s a high stakes battle of good vs. evil, and the Cindys in power need Jess on special assignment. When the mission threatens to destroy her dream life come true, Jess is forced to choose between living a fairy tale and honoring the Sisterhood… and herself.
What’s a girl to do when the glass slipper fits, but she doesn’t want to wear it anymore?
I had the chance to read this one early on, and let me tell you it is awesome!
To enter today's contest, tell me about another childhood fantasy--besides being Cinderella or a figure skater. Those were my two big ones, of course, but I also wanted to be a veterinarian for a long time. Oh, and Rainbow Brite. Answer in comments for your chance to win Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp and THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY by Kay Cassidy.
FIGURE SKATING CONTEST
Answer this question: What did you dream of becoming when you were a little girl (or boy)?
PRIZES
(1) copy of Oh. My. Gods.
(1) copy of Goddess Boot Camp
(1) ARC of THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY by Kay Cassidy
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COOP2 7 JARS OF GLASS, DREAM FACTORY, and THE CUPCAKE QUEEN by Heather Hepler
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77 comments:
What did you dream of becoming when you were a little girl (or boy)?
I dream of becoming a veterinarian and i'm on it! :D
When I was a kid, I wanted to sprout fairy wings and wave a magic wand. The closest I've come to that reality is reading books about fairies :P
Oh, and I wanted to live in a chocolate house. Enough said.
I alternated between an actress and an astronomer
I wanted to be left handed. I know, big dreams huh? Alas, it wasn't meant to be. I am right handed.
Though wanting to be exactly like my dad resulted in me being able to wield a knife and fork like a lefty. That's about it. I should have set my sights higher...like cartwheeler. Another skill beyond me :P
I dreamt of becoming a teacher. And I'm actually working towards that goal right now!
I never really thought that far. I mean, occupation wise was like blah. I wasn't the kid with dreams really xD
I wanted to be a jockey or a writer. I am much too tall for the first one, so guess I'd better keep working on my writing :-)
I always wanted to be a lawyer.. and then I found out you had to go to college for 7 years!!! I was in young and I thought that was forever, but now I have my Associates degree and I'm going for my Bachelor's in Criminal Justice this fall, and being a lawyer is something I have begun to think about again!
:)
I've always wanted to be an ice-cream man- or woman! Lol ;)
Well, I was a figure skater (both roller and ice) all the way through college, so that childhood dream was achieved, but I never got to do pairs skating. I was always too tall to be paired up.
When I was a kid ,I wanted to be a librarian for sometime because I got to sit amidst lots of books and then shifted to adminstrative services (cos I thought I could order people around :) ) and finally by third grade I wanted to be a doctor which I became eventually. Took a long time but did.
With The Lion King being my favourite childhood movie ever, I always dreamed of visiting Africa and raising a lion cub (that was of course going to be king/queen). Haven't been able to do so yet, but there's still enough time.
I wanted to be Jem from the cartoon show Jem and the Holograms. She was the original "Hannah Montana!!" I even went as her for Halloween one year with pink hair and everything! Loved the idea of being a secret rock star.
I wanted to be a teacher...boring I know! Then a fashion designer. But I think I secretly wished I was a princess for a long time. I still want to be a princess!
I wanted to be a detective! Too much Charlie's Angels I guess :D
I wanted to be an archaeologist....I was in love with Indiana Jones :)
I tended to change my mind a lot, I have all these weird conflicting passions - on one hand, I loved art but then there was this whole other side of me that loved science type stuff. Things I wanted to be include:
-Fashion designer (which would've happened if my mum hadn't talked me out of it)
-Interior designer
-Vet
-Pediatrician
-After seeing the movie Coyote Ugly, me and my friend totally wanted to own a bar... we even designed it (well, I *did* love interior design too)
-Social worker
-Gymnast (when I was younger, I did gymnastics, I was pretty good - I competed and stuff but I quite when I was 12 so that was a short lived thing)
-Archaeologist
-Geologist (not sure if that's the right name, but you know those people who study things like earthquakes and volcanos and stuff? That)
-Forensic scientist
-Pirate. Seriously.
-A secret agent! But really, who doesn't secretely want to be a bad ass spy type person with mad ninja skills? =P
Well, actually I did dream of being a famous figure skater! But besides that a famous gymnast!!! I love gymnastics, although I never officially did them.
When I was little I wanted to be in the Olympics, but not as a figure skater or any of that. I wanted to do trampoline routines, which actually didn't get added to the Olympics till after I had grown up. It was kind of cool to seeing a trampoline event added to the Summer Olympics. I didn't even know as a kid that it was an actual sport, we just had a lot of fun making up routines like the gymnasts on the floor, but we were doing it on the trampoline in the neighbors backyard instead.
A MERMAID!(actually i think i'm still waiting for that one)
i wanted to be a rockstar. i would walk it, talk it, sing it. i havent given up that dream though =]
im still on stage all the time, my guitar is always close at hand...im a performer at heart, and im still working on the whole rockstar dream. [even if i am sixteen =]]
When I was little I wanted to be the Queen of England, which I related to the time as being the queen of everything. Of course, back then, it seemed more feasible since Prince William didn't have a girlfriend and I didn't realize how much plane tickets to the U.K. cost....ah youth. I'm still holding out though for a prince who treats me like a queen, but in the figurative sense of course.
i wanted to be a power ranger..and, no, I wasn't a tomboy. I was just obsessed with power rangers for the majority of my childhood for some odd reason. hahaha! I did, however, want to be the pink power ranger. Does that redeem me?
:D
Grace L
I always said, "When I grow up, I'm going to be my sister's sister, becouse she's going to be famous" Because I didn't want to work. LOL, I was five.
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When I was seven, I wanted to become a spy. Oh yeah. Unlike most little girls who dressed as princesses for Halloween, I dressed up as James Bond. Ha, hows that for a seven year old girl? :O)
Love, Hannah
When I was a little girl I wanted to be an astronaut. My walls were plastered with NASA photographs & space posters. I loved the movie Space Camp & still vividly remember where I was when I first saw footage of the Challenger disaster. I never made it into space, but I still follow NASA pretty religiously. :)
I wanted to be a figure skater or a gymnist. Still wish I was one!
I dreamed of being a gymnast, particularly one that performed on the balance beam!
I wanted to be a triple threat: Actress, author, director. That way I could write the book/screenplay, star in the movie, and direct it. I was, obviously, a bit overambitious. Now I'm just focusing on one of the three (since I suck at acting).
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a jockey. I had never even ridden a horse before!! Now that I am an adult, I have two horses, and even if they aren't race horses, they are still awesome!
I dreamed of joining the circus, and becoming a trapeze artist! I believe I came to this conclusion after going to the circus everyday during our county's fair.
I wanted Peter Pan to come and to take me away to Neverland. I also wanted to be in a fairytale like Cinderella or Snow White. I always wanted to be a fairy or mermaid too. I also wanted to be an vet, archeoligist, spy, racecar driver, doctor, teacher, actress, singer, ferensic scientist and currently, an NCIS special agent. More than one of these dreams are still there in the back of my mind…
I wanted to be various magical creatures ( read about them but as far as I know this one's impossible), a synchronized swimmer (which I actually made happen!) a fish.... (not sure why) a writer, an editor, an actress, a singer, and many other things. I was always immagining myself as different things... I had so many dreams...
This is going to sound really weird, but when I was a little girl, I wanted to be the one who works on the cash register at the malls! I remember thinking that it was so cool when they passed the items on a barcode scanner and the price will just appear! :p
I wanted to be a lot of things...a mermaid, but I thought it would get to lonely at the pool at night :( a priest...but I found out they only took boys. I wanted to be a comedian and a cartoonist. I wanted to be a teacher, but then one of my cousins became a teacher, and I wanted to be special. And I wanted to write stories...so I'm still working on that part, but I'm definately someone special :)
I wanted to be a vet when I was little. Really. I always loved animals. I also had various things I wanted to do, like gymnastics.
I wanted to be many things singer Dance Vet you name it but the one thing that i wanted was to be a supor Hero yes I wanted to be a lottle wonder woman
little sorry
I wanted to design houses and had my whole bedroom/house designed. It had its own dance studio in it :)
When I was little I wanted to be a teacher. I have no idea why because that is the LAST thing I would ever want to do now. Ever.
When I was a very little girl I dreamed of being .... a little boy because while my mother kept trying to convince me to play with the pretty dollies all I really wanted was a remote controlled robot.
When I was a little girl i always wanted to be an archeologist because i love learning about people from the past and looking at artifacts.
When I was a little girl I dreamed of becoming a teacher.
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I always wanted to be a My Little Pony even though I knew that would've been impossible!
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I wanted to become a famous actress, move to Hollywood and become the next Olsen twin. It was a silly fantasy, and a pretty ridiculous one, come to think of it.
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I was actually determined to be a stewardess when I was in primary school and the thought of that still makes me laugh until now! I've never travel far hence flying seemed like a big thing to me back then. It was silly...
shy8629 at gmail dot com
So many different things! work at a daycare and at a daycare for dogs(!) for example! (I don't even like dogs that much...)
I wanted to be a nun. then a teacher. then a doctor. then owning my own clothing store/salon. then a nurse. and now i don't really know.
I never wanted to be a princess, or a rockstar, or a figure skater. When I was little, I wanted to be either a spy, a ninja, a dolphin, or a private investigator when I grew up.
I always wanted to be an artist. I'm not quite sure why considering I'm not artistic at all.
I wanted to be a FBI agent or a scientist when I was growing up.
I fell in love with The Little Mermaid as a kid, and I always wanted to be a mermaid. Why? Ariel was pretty, had red hair (like me), could sing, and had cool friends! Who wouldn't want to be a mermaid? Plus, I've always liked fish, so I could get to look at them all day.
For something that there was more chance of happening, though not by much, I wanted to be a fabulous famous rich person; a singer and an actress. I basically wanted to be Kylie Minogue who was my idol when I was 4. There is video footage of me with my kids' casette player and microphone, singing along to Kylie's song Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi. How cool are the dreams you have when you're younger?
I wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. I love helping people so this made sense. I've never overcame my fear of blood so it never happened.
When I was four I wanted to be a firefighter. It's not something I aspire to anymore, but it's nice to remember. =]
I wrote a wonderful comment, but I think it got lost between my pressing "post comment" and it actually getting posted. :(
The summary of my long discussion of my imaginary childhood life, is that I wanted to save the world. Every book I read and movie I watched somehow influenced the fantasy I had created. In this land, I was an all-powerful, popular, beautiful, athletic wonder, but I was also an orphan bounced around from place to place trying to find where I belong (think that song from Hercules). Eventually, I found out that my mother was Hera, who came down in human form to our dimension and married Sirius Black. I had a twin sister who looked like our mother, and I looked like our father. I had a gazillion famous people/characters as relatives or close family friends, however!
i've always wanted to be so much.
a doctor, an actress, a princess, a secret agent, the list goes on and on.
I went through a bunch of "When I grow I want to be..." when I was a little girl, but the ones that stood out most were: teacher, author, chef, drummer, photographer. I don't think my cooking skills are much of an advantage for me these days and my drumming skills are non-existent, but the remaining three are still on the go! I want to teach primary school, I'd love to write a YA novel and I want to take up photography as a hobby :)
I wanted to be the 1st female president of the United States. I went around telling people to vote for me up until I was in the 5th grade.
A dancer - not the ballet kind more the broadway show-stopping kind :)
When (and whilst) I was a little girl I wanted to become a writer. Just anything to do with English or Literature had me inspired or motivated to learn more about a certain thing to just better myself. And hopefully, I'm on my way to fulfilling my dream
Umm... *looks around nervously*... I wanted to become a writer... or a dancer, but I was too clumsy as a child. Neither of them became a reality for me until a few years ago when I realized that if I wasn't going to chase my dreams, no one was going to do it for me, and I'd end up unsatisfied at the end of my life. Now I'm both, and the little girl in me cheers with joy!
I, um ,wanted to be an archaeologist/lawyer/travel guide/airhostess/teacher.
Then I grew up and all of those plans fell through.
I wanted to be a comedian. and a teacher. and an author. and an actress.
:)
Holly
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a witch. Not the bad kind, but just like... the kind with magic. Casting spells, brewing potions, that sort of stuff. (And this was even before Harry Potter too... I was kind of an odd kid ;)
I actually wanted to be a customs officer....:D
You know, looking for illegal plants and drugs and stuff.
I bet it´s exciting!
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I had a new dream nearly every day. A few prominent careers were becoming a ballerina or a doctor. Apparently, I also wanted to became an astronaut, but I have no idea what I was thinking. I'm not exactly a big fan of science...
When I was little I really had two goals: Ballerina and mom. I have accomplished neither yet and I'm pretty sure the ballerina thing is never going to happen.
When I was little I wanted to be a professional volleyball player...
Growing up I wanted to be a marine biologist so I could play and study dolphins.
I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to help all the animals of the world. It was my dream for a long time until I realized that sometimes you can't save every life.
I wanted to be many things. It was mostly being the first woman president, but I also had dreams of being a teacher.
When I was a little girl I dreamed about being a teacher, then a princess and then a mermaid--nevermind the fact that I couldn't swim and still can't.
I wanted to be a doctor, but the older I got, the more I started hating math and all those subjects needed to be one.
As a little girl I dreamed of becoming a princess. I didn't understand that you had to be born a princess or marry a prince. The first didn't happen and the second wasn't likely so that dream went out the window.
I dreamed of being a professional singer throughout my whole childhood.
When I was a very young lady, I imagined myself as a busy, athletic role model for younger children with a career as a peiatrition.
When I grow up I want to be happy ever after...
But, if you look at the list I made as a child, I believe that I wanted to be either an actress or a teacher. I ended up a librarian (which is odd because I never saw that coming despite my love of books).
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