Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Caldecott Medal Book)
Author: Simms Taback
Translator: Jeong-hee Kim
Publisher: BettleBook
Hardcover | 32 pages | 257*188mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean only. |
About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
As in his Caldecott Honor book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,
Taback's inventive use of die-cut pages shows off his signature artwork, here
newly created for his 1977 adaptation of a Yiddish folk song. This diverting,
sequential story unravels as swiftly as the threads of Joseph's well-loved,
patch-covered plaid coat. A flip of the page allows children to peek through to
subsequent spreads as Joseph's tailoring produces items of decreasing size. The
author puts a droll spin on his narrative when Joseph loses the last remnant of
the coatAa buttonAand decides to make a book about it. "Which shows... you can
always make something out of nothing," writes Taback, who wryly slips himself
into his story by depicting Joseph creating a dummy for the book that readers
are holding. Still, it's the bustling mixed-media artwork, highlighted by the
strategically placed die-cuts, that steals the show. Taback works into his folk
art a menagerie of wide-eyed animals witnessing the overcoat's transformation,
miniature photographs superimposed on paintings and some clever asides
reproduced in small print (a wall hanging declares, "Better to have an ugly
patch than a beautiful hole"; a newspaper headline announces, "Fiddler on Roof
Falls off Roof"). With its effective repetition and an abundance of visual
humor, this is tailor-made for reading aloud. All ages.
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