The Golden Dress A Fairy Tale (excerpt) by L L Barkat Illustrated by Gail Nadeau

partner for more artful story experiences: The Golden Dress: A Fairy Tale. Exquisite painted photography, digital art, collage (and now video) brings to life the story of a seamstress who gives her only daughter a golden dress that grants the girl’s every wish throughout the years. But when the dress begins to age, the girl struggles to embrace the change—and risks losing her mother’s heart and her own special place in the world. A blue lace wind shares the secret of what will be lost, unless the girl can find a way to open her heart and her hands before the dress completely disappears. *Video Transcript* “There once was a dress. One dress. When it was new, it was gold and sparkly and shimmery like the glow of certain stars on the darkest night. It was made by a graceful old woman, whose fingers were as lissome as a ruby-throated hummingbird, and though she sewed quickly, she sewed with care, threading the dress with a hundred silken st