As an avid fan of the television show Project Runway, I was very excited when this book fell into my lap! Emma Rose is your average seventh grade girl with a flair for fashion. When a famous fashion magazine editor discovers her designs in the backroom of her father's lace shop and offers her a feature in her magazine, Emma panics and a secret identity is born: Allegra Biscotti. Allegra is everything Emma is not: cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and fearless. But when Emma has to start juggling a secret identity along with homework, a new crush, and friends, she finds out that a double life is not as glamorous as she thought.
While this book is meant for readers ages 10 and up, I still found this book to be a real treat as a college freshmen. Bennet's descriptions of the clothes and the process of making them are so precise and elaborate that the reader can picture themselves in Emma's design studio watching her work. The two-color illustrations of her sketches and doodles in the margins really bring the clothes to life and give the book a feeling of a designer's journal. This book is perfect for the tween girl with a passion for fashion!
Grace gives this book five out of five carrots!
Click here to purchase The Allegra Biscotti Collection from The Velveteen Rabbit Bookshop!
Be sure to watch for the second book in this new series coming out in June 2011: Who, What, Wear!: The Allegra Biscotti Collection
2 comments:
Can't wait to read the second one!!! I looked up the tittle in google and it looks SO SO SO good.
The second book in the series, WHO WHAT WEAR, came out in June of last year. The third book in the series is due to come out in January 2013.
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