“Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress” is a picture book written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated by Isabelle Malefont. The story is about Morris Micklewhite and his mother. Morris’s favourite time at school is the dress up center and his favourite thing to wear is the Tangerine Dress. Many of the boys and girls at school made fun of him. He was denied to do play with many people at school. Morris’s mother had painted his nails and everyone at school called Morris “pinky fingers”. One day Morris had a stomach ache and thinking about everyone at school mocking him made it worse. After his mom took care of him for a while he felt better. Morris had a dream and wanted to share all the amazing things he had seen. He painted what he saw in his dream and showed it to his mother. On Monday Morris went to school with paint in his backpack. Eli and Henry denied Morris to play in their spaceship so Morris built his own spaceship. Eli and Henry asked Morris if there were real tigers and elephants in space and Morris said that if they went with him they would find out. The story ends with Becky saying to Morris that boys don’t wear dresses with Morris replying with This one does. I think that the theme or moral of the story is to be who you are and not try and change it no matter what or who put you down and say bad things about it. I think that this book is directed to kids around the age of kids in kindergarten or grade 1 since it is a message that should be shared to people at a young age. I would rate this book 3 out of 5 stars. It is a good book but the message and the entire story is confusing at first.