My grandfather's coat / retold by Jim Aylesworth ; illustrated by Barbara McClintock.
By: Aylesworth, Jim [author.]
Contributor(s): McClintock, Barbara [illustrator.]
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780439925457; 0439925452Subject(s): Coats -- Folklore | Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction | Jews -- Migrations -- Juvenile fiction | Tailors -- Juvenile fiction | Folk songs, Yiddish -- AdaptationsGenre/Form: Picture books for children.DDC classification: 398.2 Summary: When my grandfather came to America he made himself a handsome coat! Then he wore it and he wore it and he wore it -- until it was all worn out! So what did he do? He snipped and he clipped, and he stitched and he sewed, and out of the still-good cloth of his coat, he made himself a smart jacket! How many things can Grandfather make over the years out of that old frayed coat?
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Adaptation of the Yiddish folk song "I had a little overcoat" (Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl).
When my grandfather came to America he made himself a handsome coat! Then he wore it and he wore it and he wore it -- until it was all worn out! So what did he do? He snipped and he clipped, and he stitched and he sewed, and out of the still-good cloth of his coat, he made himself a smart jacket! How many things can Grandfather make over the years out of that old frayed coat?
Ages 4-8.
