On this year's Book Your Stocking, readers are sharing children's books from their past or present. Perhaps you'll stumble upon books you remember reading or somehow missed. Should the book find its way into a stocking near you, all the better.Please welcome today's avid reader, Julia Drescher.
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Both a Dress and Not a Dress
by Julia Drescher
My favorite book in elementary school was
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes. When I was a kid, I suppose I was attracted to books that were sad with a tinge of a small, lonely triumph. I
loved the fact that the main character
did not have 100 dresses &
very much did have 100 dresses, & I loved that they were an art project & not the "actual" things that would've helped her socially. Later, when I was made to go to church, I think this book led me to sit in the pew with a small spiral notebook & design/illustrate lots of fashion garments for the Virgin Mary statue at the front of the church. It was a lovely way to spend the time.
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About Julia Drescher: Julia is a poet, writer, editor, and librarian living in Colorado. Learn about her projects here:
http://www.furtherotherbookworks.com
http://deletepress.org/julia-drescher/
