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A story about Afiya /

Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, James, 1924-2017 (Author)
Other Authors: Cunha, Anna, 1985- (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Lantana Publishing Ltd., [2020]
Edition:American edition.
Subjects:
Dresses > Juvenile poetry.
Children > Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, Jamaican.
Dresses > Poetry.
JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural.
JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America.
JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse.
Children.
Dresses.
Children's stories > Pictorial works.
Picture books for children.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Poetry.
Stories in rhyme.
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Summary:Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN:9781911373339
1911373331