Brownie and Pearl Get Dolled Up by Cynthia Rylant

I don't know why the cat has a little girl name and the little girl has the name that should belong to the cat, but with a name like Brownie she might have more options to get dolled-up in the future as a pageant star or something. I don't know. But this was a really fun book and my own little girl, who herself loves to dress up, really liked this book as the characters go through all of the steps to getting ready to go out. My favorite page was the Glitter! page in which Brownie is depicted throwing a bunch of glitter up in the air.

As a parent, if my child was playing with glitter while getting "dolled up" that would probably not make me awww at her cuteness (okay, I would initially--that is until I saw the huge glittery mess all over my bedroom floor that I knew for a fact that my child was not about to clean up by herself) but indeed it would lead to a quick time-out.

Illustrated by Brian Briggs.
Beach Lane Books, 2010.