Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
by Simms Taback
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0439216974
- ISBN 13
- 9780439216975
- Seller
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat 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 is old, Joseph makes it into a little jacket and so on until he makes it into a button. Then Joseph loses the button and makes a story out of it. The moral of the story is "you can always make something out of nothing.
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- Bookseller
- Alexander's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 081942
- Title
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
- Author
- Simms Taback
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0439216974
- ISBN 13
- 9780439216975
- Publisher
- Scholastic; Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 6
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat; Simms Taback
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 600 g
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