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colstada's review against another edition
5.0
There is a little girl who wears a dress. The dress and the girl experience a lot together like playing and exploring, until one day they travel to a new country together to find a better life. The dress and the girl get unexpectedly separated when getting off of the boat in their new county; the dress in a trunk and the girl moving on in her life's journey. One fortuitous day, several years in the future, the girl finds the dress in an unexpected place on an ordinary day with extraordinary joy.
Do you have an item from your past that when you look at it, it evokes strong memories and associations? A dress is just that for the little girl in throughout the story. This is such a wonderful and important story that is told in such a simple way. That is what makes this book so special. The journey of the girl tells her story and the separate journey of the dress is another story. Both my daughter and I connected with this story deeply and kept re-reading it, bringing about a beautiful discussion about migration and the way that life works in mysterious ways. I highly recommend this book!
Do you have an item from your past that when you look at it, it evokes strong memories and associations? A dress is just that for the little girl in throughout the story. This is such a wonderful and important story that is told in such a simple way. That is what makes this book so special. The journey of the girl tells her story and the separate journey of the dress is another story. Both my daughter and I connected with this story deeply and kept re-reading it, bringing about a beautiful discussion about migration and the way that life works in mysterious ways. I highly recommend this book!
5elementknitr's review against another edition
5.0
I *knew* I'd read this book when I originally added it to my "currently reading" list a few years ago.
I don't know why I didn't review/move to the "read" list. I often use the "currently reading" list as a placeholder for things I want to read or am waiting for the library to send to my holds.
I adore this book. It makes me happy cry.
I was happy to re-read it today.
I don't know why I didn't review/move to the "read" list. I often use the "currently reading" list as a placeholder for things I want to read or am waiting for the library to send to my holds.
I adore this book. It makes me happy cry.
I was happy to re-read it today.
theybedax's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful immigration story about reconnecting and keeping tradition alive with your children.
jgoins's review against another edition
5.0
This book will go on the list of wonderful immigration stories. This one is told by the dress of a little girl. So sweet and touching.
agudenburr's review against another edition
5.0
A beautiful book about a girl and the dress her mother made for her. When the girl travels to America, the dress is separated from the girl. The dress then decides to travel the world looking for the girl. The dress and the girl are eventually reunited and the dress is passed down to her daughter.
leslie_d's review against another edition
5.0
This is the story of a dress made for a girl by her mother. It was an ordinary dress for an ordinary girl for ordinary days. It is a dress to dream of something more extraordinary with: “Something singular, stunning, or sensational.”
One day the girl in her dress go on a journey, the family is emigrating, but once they arrive, they become separated. The girl continues on and grows up and graduates and marries and has a child. The dress travels the world looking for the girl until it tires and settles into a shop window. The stories held in those images depicting the passage of time work like prompts for the imagination.
Each cherishing the memory they hold for each other, the dress and the girl, they are finally reunited in an extraordinary circumstance on what looks to be a perfectly ordinary day along a neighborhood street.
Extra/ordinary things about this particular picture book:
How well the love and longing and the simple joys of childhood transmit via word and picture.
How quickly that childhood passes in word and picture once the child and dress arrive and become separate. It’s as if the dress isn’t just about a time, but also a place.
How they didn’t seem to leave out of fear or unhappiness. Every journey appears unexpected; and somewhat matter-of-fact. All the emotional weight is carried in the present (or in the present moment of a memory).
The rhythm incorporated into the story via the repetitions, the pacing (thanks to the design and the turns of the page), the way it all comes together in the end. I sounded very good to my ears as I read it aloud to myself (and our dog, Eleanor Swift). Don’t try for a perky, energetic voice, friends—just read the words like a poet or an indie film voice-over.
Andros and Morstad’s picture book yields lovely details like a shop window that reads “hard-to-find & rare items;” the echoing compositions & actions of the first and last pages; a memory encircled like a window by the white of the page opposite a storefront window where other items with memories and stories can be found.
“The Dress and the Girl is an exquisite reflection on the power of memory, the unexpected journeys in our lives, and how our most precious items can hold the whole world within them.”—jacket copy.
The jacket copy uses the word “exquisite” and they’re not overstating the experience of this book. To put it too simply: The Dress and the Girl is a beautiful book.
I thought of Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, and work by Carson Ellis; and I’d shelve it there with Cooney, Ellis’ Home, the Fan Brothers’ The Night Gardener, and Arias’ Marwan’s Journey.
https://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/extra-ordinary/
One day the girl in her dress go on a journey, the family is emigrating, but once they arrive, they become separated. The girl continues on and grows up and graduates and marries and has a child. The dress travels the world looking for the girl until it tires and settles into a shop window. The stories held in those images depicting the passage of time work like prompts for the imagination.
Each cherishing the memory they hold for each other, the dress and the girl, they are finally reunited in an extraordinary circumstance on what looks to be a perfectly ordinary day along a neighborhood street.
Extra/ordinary things about this particular picture book:
How well the love and longing and the simple joys of childhood transmit via word and picture.
How quickly that childhood passes in word and picture once the child and dress arrive and become separate. It’s as if the dress isn’t just about a time, but also a place.
How they didn’t seem to leave out of fear or unhappiness. Every journey appears unexpected; and somewhat matter-of-fact. All the emotional weight is carried in the present (or in the present moment of a memory).
The rhythm incorporated into the story via the repetitions, the pacing (thanks to the design and the turns of the page), the way it all comes together in the end. I sounded very good to my ears as I read it aloud to myself (and our dog, Eleanor Swift). Don’t try for a perky, energetic voice, friends—just read the words like a poet or an indie film voice-over.
Andros and Morstad’s picture book yields lovely details like a shop window that reads “hard-to-find & rare items;” the echoing compositions & actions of the first and last pages; a memory encircled like a window by the white of the page opposite a storefront window where other items with memories and stories can be found.
“The Dress and the Girl is an exquisite reflection on the power of memory, the unexpected journeys in our lives, and how our most precious items can hold the whole world within them.”—jacket copy.
The jacket copy uses the word “exquisite” and they’re not overstating the experience of this book. To put it too simply: The Dress and the Girl is a beautiful book.
I thought of Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, and work by Carson Ellis; and I’d shelve it there with Cooney, Ellis’ Home, the Fan Brothers’ The Night Gardener, and Arias’ Marwan’s Journey.
https://contemplatrix.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/extra-ordinary/
juliesplotsandpages's review against another edition
3.0
The illustrations were gorgeous!! And the story was mostly sweet. But the thread of the story/plot got lost halfway through. The girl was wearing the dress, and then she wasn’t, and then she and the dress couldn’t find each other...but how/why did they get separated in the first place? This really took away from my overall enjoyment of the book. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a plot (even in a picture book) to be continuous.