The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Daly, Niki

Jamela's Dress

32 pp. | Farrar | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-33667-9 $$16.00

(2) PS The lovely colors and patterns of Mama's hard-earned new dress material prove too inviting, and young Jamela is soon parading through town wrapped in the material, oblivious to the damage being done. All is saved when a friend's prize-winning photo of the fabric-adorned girl brings money for new material. Daly's sunlit watercolors capture the distinctive setting of the South African town as well as the emotional rollercoastering of a small child.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 1999