Little Ragged Blossom goes to the Dance

Little Ragged Blossom goes to the Dance (1997) Post 245

Little Ragged Blossom goes to the Dance is one of the May Gibbs stories I retold under contract. It involves Snugglepot and Cuddlepie's friend Little Ragged Blossom's belief that her shabby dress means she can't attend a dance. Her friends help her out by introducing her to Lilly Pilly, an actress, who gives her a feather dress. Ragged Blossom has a lovely time. I did find the illustrations a bit of a puzzle in this one. Her blossom dress looked perfectly adequate to me (clearly I lack Nut and Blossom fashion sense). I'm also not sure about the clothes-maketh-blossom plot point here, but it was one of those cases where I had to stick to the original story-line. To change things would have meant it was no longer the same story.
This is one of just a handful of these books that I know made it to print. I think there are five of them... no idea whether or not the other eight were ever printed.

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