Based on the life of Rose Bertin, credited with creating haute-couture; inspiring, bold, and readable story; includes full-color illustrations that evoke a sense of the period; and written by the author of the bestselling The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow.Rose dreams of creating clothes for the women of Paris. But when a chance encounter with royalty changes her life, she must draw on all her skills to design the most breathtaking dress of them all. Inspired by the real-life story of Rose Bertin.

Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary. "You're a BOY!" Mother and Father tell Bailey. "You shouldn't be thinking about dresses at all." Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey's imagination and courage. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses together. And Bailey's dreams come true! This gorgeous picture book—a modern fairy tale about becoming the person you feel you are inside—will delight people of all ages.

"Rose dreams of dresses! And in those dreams, she sews the most fabulous gowns for the ladies of the French Royal Court. But Rose's outfits are too...unusual. No one has ever seen ideas like hers before. Can an unexpected meeting offer Rose the chance to make her dreams come true? Inspired by the real-life story of Rose Bertin." --Page 4 of cover.

Roses of Dreams Mist By: Nellie I. Kavanagh Roses of Dreams Mist is about a young girl who believes in fairies so much that she dreams about them. Emily Rose is put on a quest by the fairies, but she does not know. The fairies lead her to a young man, which begins Emily’s journey of many twists and turns. As time passes, Emily forgets about the fairies, but they remain in her dreams, are they real? What secret is being kept from her?

Inspired by Sophie Blanchard, the world's first female hot-air balloonist; themes of overcoming anxiety and following your dreams; evocative and empowering; and a companion to Rose's Dress of Dreams.Sophie longs to watch a hot-air balloon sail across the blue sky. If she could just be brave enough to face her fears, who knows where her journey might take her ... (A reimagining of the childhood of Sophie Blanchard.)

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

Blossoming into Love Through pure chance, Rose met Sybren Werdmer ter Sane, one of the most eminent surgeons in Holland. Their accidental encounter led to a job for Rose, nursing Sybren’s godson. She loved everything about her new life—including Sybren! But surely such an important man wouldn’t have time to take an interest in her. Yet what Rose didn’t realize was that she had the gift of love, and it touched everyone around her—even hardhearted surgeons.

Examples from jewelry, millinery, handbags, perfume, couture, and everyday dress show how the rose--both beautiful and symbolic--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.

The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.