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It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Caldecott Honor Book)

It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Caldecott Honor Book)

Zemach, Margot
Zemach, Margot

Paperback

Series: Michael Di Capua Books

Fairy Tales & FolkloreGeneral Juvenile FictionReligion

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 0374436363
ISBN13: 9780374436360
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: Sep 1 1990
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.10 Width: 10.00 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Awards: Caldecott Medal

Margot Zemach's It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year, an Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book.

Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut.

Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argued. When the poor man was unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help.

As he follows the Rabbi's unlikely advice, the poor man's life goes from bad to worse, with increasingly uproarious results. In his little hut, silly calamity follows foolish catastrophe, all memorably depicted in full-color illustrations that are both funnier and lovelier than any this distinguished artist has done in the past.

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