Books with title The Dress

The Red Dress is a story told by my maternal grandmother to her children and grandchildren. I was her first grandchild and I begged her for stories about when she was a little girl. This was my favorite. I blended the settings of my own first grade with the danger she faced walking home. I always wondered what I would do if I had been on that path through the woods.

Set in 1944 in the sweltering South African wilderness, this is a powerful coming-of-age story about family and first loveIt was like looking into the crimson depths of a giant poppy. Rifke pulled off her old clothes and slipped the dress over her head, feeling its petal-soft fabric caress her skin. She darted a glance at Ma. Her mouth was set in a straight line. Still she said nothing. The argument over the red dress is the final straw for 14-year-old Rifke. Fed up with stuffy Johannesburg and her crabby, difficult mother, she snaps and recklessly boards a train out of town—but her fantasy escape doesn't go exactly to plan, and Rifke ends up in the middle of nowhere. With no train home for 30 days, she is forced to stay with the mysterious and unwelcoming van Niel family on their run-down farm, and suddenly her old life doesn't seem so bad.

The Red Dress is a story told by my maternal grandmother to her children and grandchildren. I was her first grandchild and I begged her for stories about when she was a little girl. This was my favorite. I blended the settings of my own first grade with the danger she faced walking home. I always wondered what I would do if I had been on that path through the woods.

An Orange Dress is delivered to a department store but the dress does not look good anymore. So she searches for alterations to fix all her dress complications. Her plan did not work out exactly her way but everything did work out OK. Young dresses and tuxedo's when life gives you a problem and tries to interrupt you must keep moving forward and never give up. The moral of the story is to believe in yourself. The educational value teaches children to count ordinal numbers.