Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl’s childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry.
Winner of the Northern Lights Picture Book of the Year Award 2020
USBBY Outstanding International Books 2021
New York Times, 25 Best Children's Books of 2020
Kate Greenaway Medal Nomination 2021
A Guardian Children's Book of the Month 2020