Tom And The Magical Dress

Tom Brightweaver has always known that clothes can be more than something you wear. They can become courage, imagination and even a whole new way of seeing yourself.After years of being mocked at school, Tom discovers confidence through drag and creates his dazzling alter ego, Lady Lavender-Lace: glamorous, fearless, funny and impossible to ignore. Then, on his sixteenth birthday, his grandmother gives him an extraordinary inheritance from his great-grandmother Prudence Brightweaver: a magical dress woven from dreams and imagination, able to transform into any outfit Tom can imagine.Soon Lady Lavender-Lace is enchanting audiences across the kingdom of Silkya, and a performance at the royal palace brings Tom into the life of young King Cedric. As friendship turns into something more, Tom begins to believe that perhaps fairy tales really can come true.But hidden behind the mirrors is Moyra Blackthread, Prudence's old rival, whose magic is spun from fear, envy and insecurity. When Moyra discovers the power of Prudence's dress, she sees a way to control not only what people wear, but who they become. To save Cedric and the kingdom, Tom will have to discover whether Lady Lavender-Lace's courage ever truly came from magic at all.Tom and the Magical Dress is a colourful illustrated fairy tale about drag, self-expression, confidence, first love and the courage to be gloriously yourself.Created as part of a vision for more inspiring and diverse fairy tales, this beautifully illustrated story gives children and teenagers LGBTQ+ characters and positive, diverse role models to grow up with - while telling, above all, a magical story about courage, identity, love and becoming who you truly are.Because every child deserves to find someone like themselves in a fairy tale. And to know that their story can end happily ever after, too.