Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (ISBN 0670878553) is the title of a 1999 book by Simms Taback that won the 2000 Caldecott Medal. The main character is Joseph, a 40-something Jewish farmer, who has a little striped overcoat. When it gets old, he makes it into a little jacket and so on until Joseph makes it into a button. Then Joseph looses the button and makes a story out of it. The moral of the stor is you can make something out of nothing.
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is based on the Yiddish song I Had a Little Overcoat. Readers of the story say that Joseph looks a lot like Simms Taback.
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Caldecott Medal recipient 2000 |
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