Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
by Taback, Simms
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- McCormick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38910
- Title
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
- Author
- Taback, Simms
- Illustrator
- Simms Taback
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0670878553, Caldecott Honor Medal Childrens Fiction, Children Picture Books Illustrated Caldecott Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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