The Dress in the Window

A young boy longs for a dress that he sees in a shop window and rejoices when his mother gifts it to him for his birthday.

That dress! It shimmers, so radiant and red. As the boy stares at it, full of wonder, he has just one wish: to put on that dress and to swirl and to swish. He’ll do anything to earn enough to buy it from the secondhand shop, but he’ll have to hurry. There’s just one red dress in the window!

This playful and imaginative story of self-expression brims with the infectious joy that comes when a child’s individuality is met with wholehearted support and love.

Robert Tregoning studied at the Glasgow School of Art before leaping into a career on London’s West End stage. As an LGBTQ+ writer, Robert hopes to help children and adults alike to accept and celebrate all that makes us uniquely ourselves. The stories Robert writes are stories he wishes he could have read as a child. He hopes they provide a voice of recognition, validation, and kindness to those who need it.

Pippa Curnick is the author and illustrator of numerous children's books, including the award-winning Indigo Wilde series. When Pippa isn't painting or drawing, she enjoys walking in the woods near Leicestershire, United Kingdom, where she lives with her husband and their two children.