Everyone is late for a wedding and nothing is going right. But Jillian and her wonderful ribbon dress can fix almost anything—from the groom’ s shoelaces to the bride’ s unruly hair. But now Jillian’ s dress is a mess. Who is going to fix it for her?
Robert Munsch wrote this story for Jillian, a Mohawk girl from Kahnawake, who came to a storytelling wearing her new ribbon dress.
Shaikara David is an Indigenous artist from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. She studied at Algonquin College and worked in animation before starting to illustrate picture books. For this book she was inspired by her own childhood ribbon dress and the generous andgiving culture of her family and Mohawk people. Shaikara lives in Ottawa with herpartner, two cats and an axolotl.
