The Memory Coat [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439141338
• ISBN-13: 978-0439141338
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elvira Woodruff is the author of over twenty picture books and novels for young readers including George Washington's Socks. Most recent books include Fearless and Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely, sentimental story, June 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Memory Coat (Hardcover)

I purchased a copy of this book for a friend whose great grandparents immigrated from Russia and entered the United States through Ellis Island and then purchased one for myself to read aloud to my third grade students. The paintings are beautiful and haunting; some in color, some in sepia tones. The story itself is heartwarming and sentimental.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Book, April 24, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Memory Coat (Hardcover)

My Favorite Book

My favorite book was The Memory Coat. Why is this my favorite book? I love this book because at the time I was reading it, we were learning about it in social studies. It was about immigration and how hard it was.

I feel it was very hard to get into the U.S. I think the most interesting part of the story was very sad. It was when they wouldn't let him in because he got a black eye. That was when he hit his eye on a basket. So they wrote an E on his jacket. It stood for eye. He turned his jacket inside out to get into America. That took a lot of courage.

Jonathan
DME

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Memory Coat, April 17, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Memory Coat (Hardcover)

The book, The Memory Coat, is about a Russian family of Jews with an orphan who had lost his mother in an epedimic. His coat was what his mother had crafted out of her own coat and the last thing he can remember her by. His name is Grisha, the family of Jews is his family.
It teaches that Jews were murdered even before the Holocaust. Jews in Russia saw America as a safety from prosecution; most Jewish people sold everything they had to buy a ticket to America most were sent back.

Hunter D.
5th Grader