I Had a Favorite Dress: A Picture Book

Abrams Books presents “I Had a Favorite Dress” by Boni Ashburn, illustrated by Julia Denos 👗🧵✂️✨

Oh, the heartbreak of outgrowing the favorite dress. 💕 You know the one—the dress that’s been twirled in, played in, loved beyond measure, and absolutely, positively cannot be given up! 👗✨ I Had a Favorite Dress is a charming and beautifully stylish story about growing up, getting creative, and discovering that sometimes our favorite things can become something wonderful and new.

As the seasons pass and one little girl grows, her beloved dress no longer fits. But with the help of her wonderfully patient and crafty mama, there’s no need for fashion despair! 🪡🧵 The dress becomes a shirt, the shirt becomes a tank top, the tank becomes a scarf... and the transformations continue, giving a treasured piece new life again and again. ✂️🎀💗

Structured around the days of the week and beautifully illustrated through the changing seasons, this lively story celebrates creativity, resourcefulness, growing up, and learning when to hold on—and when it’s okay to let go. 🍂❄️🌷☀️ And we especially love the narrator’s delightful approach to life’s little disasters: instead of making mountains out of molehills, she learns to “make molehills out of mountains.” 💫

With Julia Denos’s fabulous fashion-forward illustrations and Boni Ashburn’s playful storytelling, this is an especially darling pick for little fashion lovers, budding designers, crafty kiddos, and anyone who has ever loved a favorite outfit almost too much to let it go. 👗🎨🪡💕

A sweet celebration of the idea that we may outgrow our favorite things, but we never have to outgrow the memories tucked inside them. ✨💗📚