A review by amyinthewind
A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert

4.0

This is the story of how Anna & her mother get a new coat for Anna, though they are poor and living in a post WWII world. Anna's mother trades valuable items with the sheep farmer for wool, the spinner, the weaver, and the tailor. Anna's mother dyes the yarn herself with cranberries. The book carries the reader through the seasons (it takes a year for the coat to be finished), the process of making a coat, and all the way through to a Christmas celebration filled with gratitude and good neighbors.