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misspippireads's review
3.0
Poetry in a picture book. The illustrations are beautiful! I love the use of cloth for floors, buildings, clothes, backgrounds, etc. The button flowers and tape measure floor caught my eye as well. The layer is smoothly done that it is noticable, but not loud. The textures, patterns, and colors blend together for wonderfully soft images.
Reviewed from a library copy.
Reviewed from a library copy.
cimorene1558's review
4.0
Cute! I like old clothes too, although I didn't so much as a child (when you're one of three girls, everyone in the world has a bag of old clothes to give your family), and maybe if we'd had this book it might have helped!
ali_brarian's review
5.0
Such cute illustrations. The details are phenomenal, you can almost feel the textures of the clothes!
danicamidlil's review
2.0
It was trying to be so positive, yet the text kept pointing out all the downsides to wearing second-hand clothes. "Skirts with the line of a let-down hem" and I can't help feeling that pointing out all their flaws makes wearing hand-me-downs less appealing.
dawnoftheread's review
4.0
A sweet little ragtag book that captures the fun and textures of used clothes in its pictures and poetry. Not sure it would convince a child of the superiority of used clothing, but it certainly shares an understanding of its charms.
panda_incognito's review
4.0
This book is a beautiful, joyous celebration of hand-me-down clothing. Although many people perceive hand-me-downs as unfashionable, ill-fitting, and embarrassing, the little girl in this story loves her clothes and likes to imagine their previous and future lives. Hand-me-downs were always a big thing in my family, so this resonates with me. When my older sister and I were children, our friends from Texas mailed us boxes of their old clothes each year, and after we had used them, we passed them on to some local friends. They later returned the clothes for my much-younger sister, and whenever she grows out of a size, we give the clothes back for the friends' younger daughters to wear.
Some sizes are now too small for any of us. When I attended one of the older girls' graduations this summer, her mother pointed out that a toddler the girls babysit was wearing the same watermelon romper that the rest of us had once worn. Even though ten children had previously worn this outfit, it was still clean, neat, and adorable. Hand-me-downs are a wonderful way to make the most out of items and share special memories, and it was fun to find a book that celebrates this.
Some sizes are now too small for any of us. When I attended one of the older girls' graduations this summer, her mother pointed out that a toddler the girls babysit was wearing the same watermelon romper that the rest of us had once worn. Even though ten children had previously worn this outfit, it was still clean, neat, and adorable. Hand-me-downs are a wonderful way to make the most out of items and share special memories, and it was fun to find a book that celebrates this.