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Parton, Dolly

Coat of Many Colors

32 pp. | Grosset | October, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-451-53237-4 $17.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Brooke Boynton-Hughes. The lyrics to country music icon Parton's signature song--about having suffered childhood teasing for wearing a patchwork coat that her mother, too poor to buy one, made for her--are paired with Holly Hobbie–conjuring art. Parton's lyrics plod without music, subduing her emphatic message, highlighted again in the afterword: "There is absolutely nothing wrong with being different."
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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