tailors

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tailors

Clancy's coat

1984
Although Tippett the tailor has trouble getting around to returning farmer Clancy's old winter coat, he is quicker to take advantage of the opportunity to mend a broken friendship.

A cloak for the moon

2001
A retelling of one of Rabbi Nachman's tales in which a tailor, dreaming that the moon is cold in the sky, goes in search of a special fabric with which to make it a cloak.

Just like Max

1990
When Great-uncle Max, the tailor, becomes sick and can no longer sew, nephew Aaron becomes his "hands" and together they create something special.

Bruno the tailor

1996
Presents the basics of sewing through the story of Bruno the beaver, a tailor who decides to make himself a new apron.

Finn and the fairies

2006
King Bertrand announces that a royal ball will be held to find his son a wife, and all the girls in the kingdom want Finn the tailor to make their gowns; but when a group of faires want new gowns as well, Finn refuses.

The tailor

2012
Explores the daily lives of tailors in colonial America and examines the many tasks they performed in their communities. Outlines several of the techniques and tools used by tailors, and includes full-color photographs and illustrations, a glossary, and further reading sources.

The tailor of Gloucester

1987
When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him.

A cloak for the dreamer

1994
When a tailor asks each of his three sons to make a cloak for the archduke, the third son's design reveals his desire to travel the world rather than follow in his father's footsteps.

The principal's new clothes

1989
In this version of the Andersen tale the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind, suit that will be visible only to intelligent people who are good at their jobs.

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