A Dress With Pockets

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A Dress With Pockets

Lily Murray and Jenny Løvlie

(Pan Macmillan)

To go shopping for new clothes for your birthday with Aunt Augusta? It seems such a treat. However, we’re left wondering at Lucy’s reaction. After all, she’s visiting the Fabulous Fashion Store, which has ‘every kind of dress and more….’

It seems this store has dresses in every style, in every colour, for every purpose, even ‘titchy‘ or ‘witchy‘ or ‘itchy‘. It seems these dresses might be ‘furry- feather-lacy [or] leather‘ or even ‘fit for a Queen’! Why you might find one that’s ‘wispy-gauzy-floaty‘ that leaves you ‘looking like a cloud!‘ Lucy’s the opportunity to be ‘lovely pink and fluffy‘ or ‘puffy’ or ‘shiny‘ or ‘spiny’ or loose! Then there are ‘tied-up-in- knotty dresses,/ Polka-Dotted spotty dresses,/ Slinky dresses, twinkly dresses,/ Lit up like the night!’ 

After all of this, it seems certain that Lucy’s spoiled for choice? Yet is she? Lily Murray spins words like candy floss so that we’re ragged with excitement and choice. Meanwhile, the illustrations of Jenny Løvlie are bright, immediate and expressive. It means that we know that Lucy’s overwhelmed and struggling to find her voice to ask for A Dress With Pockets.

Then again, we understand that this is a birthday girl who has A Way With Wild Things. Therefore, she needs a practical approach, something that will work with her! Can the Fabulous Fashion Store oblige? Will Lucy find A Dress With Pockets?