It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale /
Zemach, Margot,
It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale / retold and with pictures by Margot Zemach. - First Square Fish edition. - 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to his rabbi for advice. 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.
9780833507068 0833507060 9780374436360 0374436363
76053895
Jews--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
Folklore--Juvenile literature.
Extended families--Juvenile fiction.
Domestic animals--Juvenile fiction.
Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
Wisdom--Juvenile fiction.
Satisfaction--Juvenile fiction.
Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, American--20th century.
Folk tales.
Picture books.
It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale / retold and with pictures by Margot Zemach. - First Square Fish edition. - 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to his rabbi for advice. 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.
9780833507068 0833507060 9780374436360 0374436363
76053895
Jews--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
Folklore--Juvenile literature.
Extended families--Juvenile fiction.
Domestic animals--Juvenile fiction.
Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
Wisdom--Juvenile fiction.
Satisfaction--Juvenile fiction.
Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, American--20th century.
Folk tales.
Picture books.