Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (ISBN 0-670-87855-3) 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 story 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.

Preceded by
Snowflake Bentley		 Caldecott Medal recipient
2000		 Succeeded by
So You Want to Be President?


This article about a children's book is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../j/o/s/Joseph_Had_a_Little_Overcoat_55b2.html"