10,000 Dresses
Illustrator
Rex Ray
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Publication Year
2008
ISBN
9781583228500
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
AD540L
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Transgender; transgender child; boy to girl
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
LGBTQ+
transgender female
Awards
Rainbow List, 2009 American Library Association
Stonewall Book Award, 2010 Honor Book United States
Keywords
identity; self-perception; dresses; dreams; imagination; friendship; acceptance
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Ewer, Marcus, "10,000 Dresses" (2008). Diverse Families. 1.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1