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A review by car_car22
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
3.0
This book was quite different from any book that I have read, even for a picture book. There were very little words but even so it told a story about a man with a coat that he loved. He had an overcoat but when it got older he had to change it to a jacket. After the jacket became old it became a vest, scarf, necktie, handkerchief, and a button until finally he lost it. With each of these articles of clothing he did something else exciting; such as singing in the choir or going to see his married sister. After he lost the button he decided to write a story about how his coat went into a button. This he hoped to make people see that you can make something out of nothing.
This book had almost no words at all. The pictures made the story what it was, without them the book would have been less than a page long. This is important because the pictures were a collage of Joseph's life and every stage of it. The coat changed but so did Joseph and the things he experienced. The pictures are so vivid they provide us with a guideline of the different places that we could be at in life and providing us with an example of how to make the most out of anything, even an old overcoat.
This book had almost no words at all. The pictures made the story what it was, without them the book would have been less than a page long. This is important because the pictures were a collage of Joseph's life and every stage of it. The coat changed but so did Joseph and the things he experienced. The pictures are so vivid they provide us with a guideline of the different places that we could be at in life and providing us with an example of how to make the most out of anything, even an old overcoat.