TY - BOOK AU - Zemach,Margot TI - It could always be worse: a Yiddish folk tale SN - 9780833507068 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Square Fish KW - Jews KW - Folklore KW - Juvenile literature KW - Extended families KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Domestic animals KW - Poverty KW - Wisdom KW - Satisfaction KW - Children's stories, American KW - 20th century KW - Folk tales KW - lcgft KW - Picture books N2 - 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 ER -