Despite a raging snowstorm, Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, offers to deliver the duchess' newly finished ball gown . . . With sure writing and well-composed, riveting art, Steig keeps readers with Irene every step of the long way. (Starred/Booklist)

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, 32 pages, paper
ISBN: 0374409277