Simms Taback

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 …

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents the traditional song with illustrations on die-cut pages that reveal all that the old lady swallows.