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While Poppy is playing with her Bunny stuffy, the bunny's dress rips. Afraid she’ll have to throw away the dress, her mom leads Poppy to a box of fabric scraps. They spend time naming different patterns and reminiscing about the scraps’ origins. The paisley scrap came from grandpa’s tie, for example, and a chevron scrap came from auntie’s scarf. Then mom takes out her measuring tape and sewing machine and creates a new, multi-patterned dress for both Poppy and her stuffy.
The author includes familiar fabric patterns ((stripes, polka dots, camouflage) and less familiar ones (shibori, toile de Jouy, ankara) both through the story and on the Pattern Library at the end. Fabric arts are not often the subject of a picture book and I learned some new terminology myself. Readers will encounter familiar fabric patterns ((stripes, polka dots, camouflage) and less familiar ones (shibori, toile de Jouy, ankara) both through the story and in the Pattern Library at the end.
P.K. Foster, MLS, elementary school teacher-librarian
Poppy and her mom are Black
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