Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
This book is adapted from the Yiddish folk song "I Had a Little Overcoat" that the author loved as a child. It starts out with Joseph wearing an old worn overcoat, that he transforms into a jacket. As the garment gets worn out, Joseph continues to turn it into something else until it is gone forever. What is cute is that every time the garment is turned into something else, the shape of the new garment is cut out of the page so that the reader can see the transformation. At the end of the book, the author includes the score for the song which gave him the inspiration for the book.
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