When a 7-year old girl eyes her mother's suitcase full of gorgeous silk, cotton and embroidered saris she decides that she too should wear one, even though she is too young for such clothing. Her mother tells her no, that there are lots of other Indian outfits she can wear such as a chaniya choli, a cropped Indian top with a long, full skirt.
Eventually, the mother realises how important it is for her little girl to feel like a big girl and dresses up her daughter in the complicated and ornate folds of a blue sari, adding a bindi to her forehead as a final touch. Feeling grown-up and pretty, the daughter embraces her mother, thrilled to be just like her, even if just for a moment.
- ISBN10 0316090085
- ISBN13 9780316090087
- Publish Date 19 December 2009 (first published 2 August 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Format eBook
- Language English