The Golden Dress: A Fairy Tale - Paperback

by Gail Nadeau (Illustrator), L. L. Barkat (Author)

Exquisite painted photography, digital art, and collage brings to life the story of a seamstress who gives her only daughter a golden dress that grants the girl's every wish throughout the years. But when the dress begins to age, the girl struggles to embrace the change-and risks losing her mother's heart and her own special place in the world. A blue lace wind shares the secret of what will be lost, unless the girl can find a way to open her heart and her hands before the dress completely disappears.

Author Biography

L.L. (Laura) Barkat has served as a books, parenting, and education contributor to The Huffington Post blog; is a freelance writer for Edutopia; and is the author of six books for grown-ups. She is also the author of a new learn-to-read series and the beautiful A Is for Azure: The Alphabet in Colors. If she had a golden dress, she would wish for a pair of golden shoes to go with it. And earrings with rubies.

Gail Nadeau has been a fine artist for nearly forty years, and her house is filled with jewel-like colors and many, many pieces of art. She has-through digital media, painting, and collage-created hundreds of pieces of colorful dress art, just a handful of which are featured in The Golden Dress.