Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

I love books with cutouts in them and this is done very well. The cutout is only for Joseph’s coat and every other page it gets smaller as the coat gets older. I wonder how it would keep getting smaller, and the author does a great job shrinking that down. The artwork is interesting. It is watercolo......more

After reading Simms Taback’s version of “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” I thought that there would never be another die-cut formatted folk song book, but I have just recently read another folk song book called “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat.” “Joseph Had a Little Overcoat” is a Caldecot......more

Joseph teaches us the value of recycling, i.e how an old overcoat full of holes can end up being a button. The story is inspired by a yiddish folk song which I have never heard before (the author provides the english lyrics in the end of the book. The story is cute, the song sounds cute. Overall a ve......more