Andrea Spalding - Sarah May and the New Red Dress

Andrea Spalding

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Sarah May and the
New Red Dress

By: Andrea Spalding
Illustrations by: Janet Wilson
Type: Picture Book
Published by: Orca Book Publishers
Available in: Hardcover, 32pp, 1998
ISBN: 1-555143-117-3
Available in: Softcover, 32pp
ISBN: 1-55143-119-X

Out of Print

A grandmother remembers her island childhood, when she was Sarah May of the seashore, and the wind and rain conspired to help her.

Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon award nomination for illustration
Canadian Library Association Honour Book for 1998.
Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice - exceptional merit
Outstanding by Parent Council ( Texas )
Short-listed for Ruth Schwartz award, Ontario Library Association
CBC This Morning Book Panel selection

- "Sarah May Shines... A beautiful, lyrical story... Her text sings... a lovely book to read and treasure" Quill and Quire starred review

- "part of the pleasure is the amusing, plausible story... and part... is Wilson 's expression of place..." Toronto Star

- "A simple story, well told with evocative language..." Victoria Times Colonist.

- CBC Children's book panel - Books for Young Readers

Sarah May needs a new dress. She longs for a red one, but Mother and Father insist that it must be made of a cheap material that doesn't show the dirt. A new dress of dismal blue is made. Sarah May and her friend the West Wind get together, and with a touch of mischief and the help of the weather, the longed for red dress becomes reality.

Beautiful illustrations by Janet Wilson depict the west Coast of Canada and the Gulf Islands that Andrea lives on. Can you see the wind on almost every page?

Read a review by Linda Richards of the "January Magazine"
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