Early Reader Review: The Dress in the Window by Robert Tregoning

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The Dress in the Window by Robert Tregoning and Illustrated by Pippa Curnick

Publisher:Flyaway Books
Publication Date:  March 19, 2024

 

Format: Ebook


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Goodreads Synopsis: 

A young boy longs for a dress that he sees in a shop window and rejoices when his mother gifts it to him for his birthday. That dress! It shimmers, so radiant and red. As the boy stares at it, full of wonder, he has just one to put on that dress and to swirl and to swish. He’ll do anything to earn enough to buy it from the secondhand shop, but he’ll have to hurry. There’s just one red dress in the window! This playful and imaginative story of self-expression brims with the infectious joy that comes when a child’s individuality is met with wholehearted support and love.

Review: 

This is a lovely children's book about acceptance and longing. A young boy sees a dress in the thrift store window and cannot wait to buy it for himself. 

The text is rhyming and flows well, at times it feels flowy like the dress. The boy daydreams about what the dress has done before making it to the thrift store and then does his very best to help the whole neighborhood with chores to have enough money to buy it. 

What I loved about this book, was that there was no questioning why he wanted a dress, it was just another great thing he could buy. Zero judgement from mom or the neighbors. There was so much love and acceptance and it was absolutely wonderful. I loved it so much. 

The illustrations were beautiful and whimsical at times. The boy was surrounded by supportive, loving people. 

[All that said, the endpages (?) have an illustration of things being dropped off at teh thrift and one likely says "stuff to donate" but it looks SO CLOSE to "sh*t to donate" and that is immediately what I thought it said. So if you are a parent and concerned with this, be aware]