Violet Velvet Mittens with Everything: The Fabulous Life of Diana Vreeland

A Bologna Ragazzi Award "100 Best Picture Books of the Year" selection

This wonderful true story of iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland teaches young readers that individuality is to be celebrated, and that even extraordinary dreams can come true.

Violet Velvet Mittens with Everything captures the dramatic, spectacular world of fashion icon Diana Vreeland, whose legacy at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art continues to influence the fashion world today. As a little girl in Paris, Vreeland loved to read and dance, and most of all dress up. Her love of originality persisted through her career in fashion, where her work was colorful, zany, and never, ever boring. Violet Velvet Mittens with Everything captures Vreeland's larger-than-life personality with an infectiously extravagant tone and style, showing young readers that above dazzling and daring, being yourself makes the most lasting impact of all.

(Although Violet Velvet Mittens with Everything is a tribute to the life of Diana Vreeland, the book is not authorized by her Estate)

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.10w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781648960635
Age: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/12/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 48
School Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 84

About the Author
Deborah Blumenthal is the author of twenty-four books for children and adults, and an award-winning journalist. She lives in New York City with her husband and their rescue dog, Nellie.

Rachel Katstaller is a children's book illustrator who lives in the Austrian Alps with her cat, Hemingway, at her side.