Coat of Many Colors
Illustrator
Brooke Boynton Hughes
Publisher
Penguin Young Reader Groups
Publication Year
2016
ISBN
9780451532374
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picturebook
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
A poor girl delights in her coat of many colors, made by her mother from rags, because despite the ridicule of the other children she knows the coat was made with love.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Poverty; living in poverty; poor
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
mother and father
Keywords
clothes and dress; mothers and daughters; country music; stories in rhyme
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Parton, Dolly, "Coat of Many Colors" (2016). Diverse Families. 842.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/842