A lonely, creative child who longed for a more exciting environment than the desert where she was raised, Edith Head was good at entertaining herself. She loved to dress up her animals and toys in ribbons and feathers, and she collected fabric scraps to make doll clothes. She put costumes together, too, for her friends’ plays. As a high school student in Los Angeles, Edith discovered movies, and after college she became a sketch artist in a Hollywood costume department—despite a complete lack of drawing skill. With diligent practice, and at least one early career failure, Edith moved up the ranks, designing costumes first for animals, then for dancers, and finally for movie stars. She became so skilled, in fact, that she won eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design. Clean illustrations with plenty of white space accompany the biography of this exceptionally confident, determined, and passionate artist.  (Ages 5-7)