The book itself is unusual through the artwork and style. you can always make something out of nothing." The axiom is lampshaded and told tongue-in-cheek, as evident by the title page, which has the tag, "He wore the coat for a long time and then something happened to it. At the end, he loses the button, but is able to write a story about it, which leads to the explicitly stated moral at the end: "Which shows. In this case, Joseph continues to make his overcoat into something new - and smaller - with each iteration, until finally all that is left is a button. When he loses the button, he writes a story about the overcoat.īased on a Yiddish song, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is a type of folktale known as a "cumulative tale", where a repetitive action is completed, usually with a surprise ending. When that becomes too worn, he makes it into a vest, then a scarf, and so on, until in the end, Joseph has nothing but a button. In this cumulative tale, a Jewish farmer named Joseph has an overcoat which grows too old and worn, so he turns it into a jacket.
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