Review of
Coat of Many Colors,
by Dolly Parton, ISBN 006023413x
Five out of five stars
Growing up poor, yet rich with love
This book is
about a girl growing up poor, where her family simply could not provide her
with new clothes. When she needed a new coat, her mother sewed one together using
rags that someone had given them. The stitching was done by hand by the light
of a kerosene lantern. She was proud of her new coat, but when she wore it to
school, the other children made fun of her.
Her response
was that only you can make yourself poor and that the coat represented a great
deal of love that she had received from her family. With head held high and a
smile on her face, patches on her pants and holes in her shoes, the girl
proudly walked back and forth to school wearing her coat.
Dolly Parton
grew up poor in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and so this book is at least
somewhat autobiographical. It is a delightful story of how children can be
happy independent of their means.
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