Mom's Dresses

Mom’s Dresses is a celebration of the love between mother and daughter. The beautiful and unique dresses that this mother wears inspire her daughter to imagine wonderful adventures and evoke a current of emotions that mother and daughter ride through together. It includes a a model and variety of dresses to be cut out as well as a write-in spread.

Guided Reading Level N.

Mónica Carretero was born in Madrid. She has always loved to paint and create stories. She is self-taught. Her life is to paint ad write. When she illustrates books she intends the illustrations to be a perfect complement of the text and to tell something more. She wants both children and adults to get “lost” in her illustrations and dream, to discover meanings that are hidden in the text but can be felt.

She likes to transmit hope, humor, excitement, tenderness, and especially love. She has worked for big and important publishing houses and she has also collaborated in specialized journals and magazines.

Mónica Carretero is a very prolific and successful author and illustrator with many award winning titles to her name.