Fashion Design Workshop Remix by Stephanie Corfee

This is a great book to learn to draw people, fashion and how to design items too. Moving with more body positive times, we get tips to help draw figures in wheelchairs or with crutches as well as able bodied people too of a range of sizes true to life.

There's tips and a quiz to help find your style, multiple ways to colour/create your illustrations such as mettallics, white pen on black card, watercolours etc and how to adapt outfits to be smart/casual or suitable for certain events with figure templates to help you get started and help/tips on how to create a fashion collection of your own to draw and inspire you using an item or colour palette etc.

This is the best book I've ever read about art, design and drawing by far if you want a career in fashion this would be a great basis to start from!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

The Polka Dot Shop by Laurel Remmington

This book is about vintage clothes and the joys of used and unused but quality clothing as we soon see...

Andy hates her mum's shop with a passion as she is forced to wear second hand unfashionable clothing her mum brings home for her. Wanting desperately to buy her own new quality clothes, she just may get her wish when she unearths a bag full of designer clothing when helping out in her mum's shop...

As she befriends next doors cute boy, the pair set about transforming her mum's shop whilst she goes on holiday to save the business and turn it into a prosperous and hip shop from the dud rubbish shop Andy thinks it is.

The book features issues from transgender to disability, depression and family troubles as well as showing how businesses can be turned around into prosperous prospects once again. We see how bright young teens can be and how dedication to an idea can really pay off especially for the future and change a life!

It was a fun story and extremely likable Andy was great and following the journey of the transformation was super!

Drag Teen by Jeffery Self

JT is a seventeen year old, gay guy who has boyfriend, Seth and best friend Heather by his side. He and Heather bonded over their body image issues.

Seth introduces JT to the idea of entering the Miss Drag Teen Scholarship Pageant as JT dreams of being a Drag Teen and is obsessed with RuPauls Drag Race, a popular real American TV show.

Missing out on his one chance of winning a scholarship at high school, his fathers set ideas for his life and spring break in New York on offer with a scholarship win possible he soon makes plans with Seth and Heather to get there and learn to be a better drag queen on the way.

Along the way, older drag queen Bambi teaches him make-up tips, Tina a kind old singer let's him use her old stage wear and wigs as well as coaxing his singing out of him and showing him he has power.

After a few minor hiccups they manage to get JT there and competes to win despite a sabotage effort by a jealous fellow drag queen. A surprise return of a helpful friend also shows life can spin you a lucky break.

A serious show of dedication all round and a powerful story about how your dreams can come true along with help from your great friends!