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32 pp.
| Sterling |
August, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4549-1393-1$14.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
Brown-skinned Mary is an ultra-fashionable girl who commands the spotlight wherever she goes because of her glamorous accessories. She makes-over her fellow Mother Goose Elementary students, but will recess wreck the outfits? The revamped nursery-rhyme characters are diversely portrayed in Brantley-Newton's collaged digital illustrations for this zippy rhyming story with a lesson for young fashionistas: "Sometimes less is more!"