JOSEPH HAD A LITTLE OVERCOAT
by Taback, Simms
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, 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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- Bookseller
- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64539
- Title
- JOSEPH HAD A LITTLE OVERCOAT
- Author
- Taback, Simms
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Publisher
- Viking Books for Young Readers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0670878553
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.