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A girl wearing her favorite coat sets out each day for a week to see what she'll see. And each day, she finds someone-a giant, a swan, a ship's captain and crew, a wizard, three bunnies, and a small elf-who needs the help of one of her coat's six magical buttons. But what is she going to do on Sunday, when all her buttons are gone?
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About the Author:
Catherine Ann Cullen is a radio producer and the writer for an animated series, Walt and Wisteria. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. David Christiana teaches art at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson with his wife, Kristie Atwood.
From Publishers Weekly:
The titular coat of Cullen's whimsical debut possesses transformative powers, a theme tailor-made for Christiana's (The Tale I Told Sasha) fey style. "I went out on Monday to see what I'd see,/ And I saw a young giant who was hot as could be" outlines the structure for a week full of surprises as the heroine hands out coat buttons that each perform a specific deed. The rhymes are alliterative, if a bit contrived. For instance, the giant, cooled by the "cold" button, "began to emote,/ `What a megacooliferous,/ marvelous coat!' " Similarly, the "warm" button aids a frozen swan ("What a meltificent, marvelous coat!" the bird exclaims), a third plays a tune that calms a stormy sea ("Ahoy to that maritime, marvelous coat!" yell the captain and crew of a ship). Christiana's dreamlike watercolors add a mystical element and create a context for the sometimes lurching text. He vests the main character with an arrestingly androgynous nature and fills the pages with signature touches waiflike creatures with spindly legs and bare feet (or oversize shoes), odd corners where vaguely defined objects lurk and a sophisticated, shadowy palette. At times, the singsongy narrative works against the magical metamorphoses. In the end, the buttons unexpectedly reappear, and those whose lives were touched turn up to recount the coat's attributes in a final refrain; yet the conclusion's mix of fantasy and reality do not quite jibe. Ages 4-8.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- ISBN 10 0756782341
- ISBN 13 9780756782344
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages29
- IllustratorChristiana David
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