![]() ![]() ![]() It's nighttime once again and you know what Bailey's dreaming about? Dresses. Yet if there is room on a library's shelves for books for kids who want to be pilots, want to be gymnasts, and want to be president, how much more specialized is it to carry a book where kids want to wear dresses? Particularly boy-type kids? A need has now been filled. And I know too that 10,000 Dresses could be seen as a picture book catering to only a very specific situation as a result. I know that there are boys out there who like to wear dresses, and I know that there are other kids out there who would find the practice strange and an excuse to be mean. I think of this article when I think of Marcus Ewart and Rex Ray's 10,000 Dresses. ![]() It was a supportive article, one that could easily have gone in another direction had the child had less open and accepting parents. In the end they talked it over with the school, then coached their son on how to deal with kids who made fun of him for his choices. They didn't mind it in the home, but when he wanted to start wearing dresses to school the parental units weren't sure how to handle the situation. The boy liked wearing dresses, and pretty much preferred to wear them all the time. It was a true story of two parents trying to figure out how to deal with their young son. However, a year or so ago this periodical carried a story I hadn't really heard before. For all intents and purposes Cookie magazine is not the kind of publication I read regularly (in that I make less that $250,000 a year). ![]()
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