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I Had a Favorite Dress
by
Boni Ashburn (Goodreads Author),
Julia Denos (Goodreads Author)
Open up a fresh and stylish story about growing up and keeping hold of your favorite memories. As the year passes, the narrator’s favorite dress goes through a series of creative changes, from dress to shirt to tank top to scarf and so on, until all that’s left of it is a good memory. Assisted by her patient and crafty mama, the narrator finds that when disaster strikes he...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
August 1st 2011
by Harry N. Abrams
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I loved reading this with my 7 year old. Her comment: "It's really creative!" She was full of smiles as she realized the pattern in the story and started predicting what the little girl would make next out of her favorite dress. And then toward the end, she loved how she couldn't quite predict what she'd make next. After we read it, she wanted to go back and count all the things the little girl made out of her original dress. I also think my daughter could relate to the little girl feeling sad a...more
The genre of this book is a picture book. The age group of this book is 4-7. This book is about s girl who had a favorite dress and she wore it everyday of the week. The plot of this story was about a girl who had a favorite dress she liked to wear everyday of the week. But her dress did not last so her mom would think of creative ways to change the dress around so she can still wear it throughtout the week. Her mother mad a skirt, two shirts, socks, scarf, and a bow out of her favorite dress. T...more
A girl loves her favorite dress, but it is now too small for her. Her clever mother shapes it into new things the girl can wear. As the girl grows, the dress is transformed into a shirt, then a tank top, then a scarf, then socks, until it finally becomes a beautiful hair bow.
A nice story about using creativity to solve a problem.
“I had a favorite dress that was my favoritest dress ever. I wore it every Tuesday because that was my favorite day of the week.
But one Tuesday, I put on my favorite dre...more
A nice story about using creativity to solve a problem.
“I had a favorite dress that was my favoritest dress ever. I wore it every Tuesday because that was my favorite day of the week.
But one Tuesday, I put on my favorite dre...more
The narrator in this picture book has a dress that she simply loves to wear, but when it becomes too small for her, her mother fashions it into a ruffly new shirt, then a tank top, a skirt, a scarf, socks, and a hair bow. At first I expected her mother to buy her something new, but I was delighted that mother and daughter found a way to turn something old into something new. I also liked how the daughter cleverly creates something from the remains of the chewed up ribbon in the end. I loved the...more
What do you do when you outgrow your favorite dress? Turn it into something else, of course! As our main character outgrows or tears her favorite outfit, or just needs something new, her mother does a little “Snip, snip! Sew, sew!” and changes it into just what she needs!
This charming picture book will appeal to fashionistas everywhere, but it’s about more than just pretty clothes—it’s about innovation! What really makes the book, though, is Julia Denos’ illustrations. Her unique style with colo...more
This charming picture book will appeal to fashionistas everywhere, but it’s about more than just pretty clothes—it’s about innovation! What really makes the book, though, is Julia Denos’ illustrations. Her unique style with colo...more
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A little girl with a favorite dress discovers what can be made of clothes when we outgrow them. No need to get rid of her favorite dress, she can make it into a t-shirt! And then a tank top, a skirt, etc. If you have a budding fashionista in your house, this is definitely a book to check out!
The illustration are unique, with the artist using a collage-type medium with pencils, paints, and 3D elements and a fun to just look at...I discovered n...more
A little girl with a favorite dress discovers what can be made of clothes when we outgrow them. No need to get rid of her favorite dress, she can make it into a t-shirt! And then a tank top, a skirt, etc. If you have a budding fashionista in your house, this is definitely a book to check out!
The illustration are unique, with the artist using a collage-type medium with pencils, paints, and 3D elements and a fun to just look at...I discovered n...more
Love it! This fun and funky story of a beloved dress outgrown and turned into other bits of girly clothing (including a "tassely scarf") drew my attention because of the breezy illustrations of Julia Denos (Just Being Audrey), but the text is winning as well -- poetic and rhythmic without full-on rhyming. I also appreciate the multicultural characters and the fact that Mom and Grandma are stable and resourceful. A wonderfully updated twist on the Joseph Had a Little Overcoat concept.
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Lovely both inside and out. A young girl's favorite dress changes with the seasons and her own growing self to become a shirt, a tank, a skirt, a scarf and more. Boni Ashburn's story has a wonderful vibrancy to it, with the repeated refrain of "Snip, snip, sew, sew, new [insert clothing item here] hello!". I also loved the final outcome of the dress, which is sweet and simple. Julia Denos' illustrations are gorgeous and the coloring is divine. I wish I could live in this picture book. And I wish...more
This is a modern day twist on the traditional "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat" (Simms Taback) or is "Something From Nothing" (Phoebe Gilman). An exuberant young girl adores her frilly pink dress, but eventually outgrows it. In a repeating pattern her mother helps her salvage parts of the dress with a celebratory "snip-snip, sew-sew, new ______, hello!" to its new incarnation as a blouse, tank top, scarf, etc. The lively twist at the end of this version shows the creative girl using the final scrap...more
Lest anybody think I am All Boy All the Time, this great picture book about a style-conscious little girl and her crafty - in both senses of the word - mama almost made me wish I had little girl style crises in my own life. But alas. My boys will wear a pair of pants until it falls apart on them - not because they love those pants but because they have not actually noticed that their butts are visible through the holes in the seat.
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This fun and funky story of a beloved dress outgrown and turned into other bits of girly clothing (including a "tassely scarf") drew my attention because of the breezy illustrations of Julia Denos (Just Being Audrey), but the text is winning as well -- poetic and rhythmic without full-on rhyming. - Becky, Teen Librarian
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I think that most of the girls in my class would like reading this book because it is talking about clothes and the pictures are very fun and light an focus on the main female character. This book might be better for the students to read on their own but I could also read it aloud for their predictions for what she might do next with her dress and for them to think about how she is solving this problem.
I actually thought this was a very nice book. I can easily remember myself altering my own favorite pieces in order to just keep using them: such as my hot pink ankle socks with a white skull wearing a bow on them. I cut them and made them into gloves since a few holes opened around my toes.
This story is excellent for creative young girls who are fond of fashion. =)
This story is excellent for creative young girls who are fond of fashion. =)
Quite similar to Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, except instead of an older Jewish man doing the repurposing, it's a chic African American pre-tween and her mother who keep getting the most out of a favorite dress. Might be fun to read the two books together.
Have a child who has a favorite piece of clothing? This little girls mother makes sure her daughter's beloved dress never gets thrown away. It becomes just a skirt to a scarf to a hair bow!
I love the illustrations in this. I also love the resourceful mother who keeps that favorite dress a favorite piece in her daughters wardrobe for years.
I love the illustrations in this. I also love the resourceful mother who keeps that favorite dress a favorite piece in her daughters wardrobe for years.
Simple story accompanied by beautiful illustrations. A storyteller we've been working with on our financial education for preschooler program tells a variant of this and we just added this title to our collection. I love the emphasis on recycling, extending the life of a physical object you love and the creativity encouraged throughout the tale.
One of my favorite picture books! It's not just sweet and girly, it's about innovation! As the girl's dress get's too small, ripped or out of style she and her mom figure out new ways to change it into something new! The illustrations are charming, and the story simple but memorable. A great read for girls of all ages!
What do you do when you outgrow your favorite piece of clothing? Why not make it into a new favorite piece of clothing! When she outgrows her favorite dress, "snip, snip, sew, sew" her mom makes it into a new outfit! Super cute illustrations and just enough repetition in the story to anticipate what is coming next.
I love books that have a sewing component, recalling all the times my Mom sewed things for my sister and me.This charming story is a great testament to problem-solving. What happens when your favorite dress gets too short? Creativity and a willingness to make the best of a situation will resonate with readers.
Great story for girly girls. Includes a cute refrain ("Snip, snip, sew, sew, new something, hello!"). This would be a cute cut and tell story with realia. I could see using a real dress in my telling of this story and paring the clothing item down just as happens in the story.
Though my daughter hasn't had any ideas yet for turning her favorite dress that she's grown out of into something else, she may one day after reading this book. Sew, Sew; Snip, Snip is something I'm fairly good at - so if the idea strikes her, we may do just that!
Fantastic story, will need to get one for my library and a few for my neices. My only fault with the story was that the mother did all the sewing, would have been even better if the little girl learned how to do the changes herself but still a good story.
This is a sweet story about being and staying positive. It includes sewing and being creative so I really like it. The story has a nice rhythm for reading out loud.
For those familiar with the Accelerated Reader Program, this is a level 3.4 book.
For those familiar with the Accelerated Reader Program, this is a level 3.4 book.
A fun little children's book about a girl whose favorite dress was one day (gulp!) too short, and what happens to that dress when the owner's mother is armed with a sewing machine and some imagination. Made me think about things in my own daughter's closet.
LOVE this story about a fashionable young girl who has a dress that becomes too small. Mama then sews it into a t-shirt until that becomes too small and so on. Similar to Joseph had a little overcoat. Extra points for using a non-white main character!
First of all the illustrations are whimsical and enhance the story. The story is very a creative in how they incorporate days of the week and how time changes things. This story would work well for problem/solution scenerios.
Recommended for NYRA 2013, this is a good book for school-age girls. Third to fifth grade girls may enjoy the fashion options presented in the book. The story also encourage the current trend of recycling, reusing, repurposing.
This is a story about a girl’s favorite dress going through changes as the year passes. Her dress turns into a shirt, tank top, scarf and many others. At last all that’s left is the memory of her favorite dress.
My daughter loved this book probably because she loves clothes and sewing. I loved that it because it's about re-purposing. The dress becomes so many different things, fun message on making do and finding a way!
A fun story about a girl who keeps remaking a favorite dress that she grows out of into new clothing articles. The illustrations are captivating. I like that it helps teach young girls to recycle and be imaginative.
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Boni Ashburn is a children's book author who spends more time reading and writing children's books every day than she does breathing. She is the author of Hush, Little Dragon, Over At The Castle and I Had A Favorite Dress, as well as several other forthcoming books. Boni lives in the Upper Peninsula Of Michigan with her four children and too many bookshelves to count.
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Aug 04, 2011 01:40pm