Tattercoats (A North-South Picture Book) - Hardcover

Watts, Bernadette; North-South, Books

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9781558580022: Tattercoats (A North-South Picture Book)

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ISBN 10: 1558580026 ISBN 13: 9781558580022

Publisher: NorthSouth, 1945

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A once proud scarecrow becomes more and more bedraggled as the children neglect him during the winter months, and he loses hope of ever feeling happy again.

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About the Author:

Bernadette Watts has loved to draw since her childhood in England. She created her first picture book under the influence of Beatrix Potter. Watts studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent and is the illustrator of North South fairy tales The Snow Queen and The Ugly Duckling.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2-- Named for his ragged appearance, Tattercoats loves the farm children whose field he guards. As winter begins, the scarecrow becomes lonely for the youngsters. In spring, hearing of a new baby in the family, he sinks down in the flowery field, quite certain that he won't be visited again. Happily, he is found, decked out in new clothes, and assigned to the garden. The children never fail to call "goodnight" to him each night. The seasons are captured in pastel illustrations on full- or double-page spreads. Autumn is golden with Monet-like accents of bright flowers. Wind, snow, or rain blow through each picture. Dreary weather, pictured in grays and browns, culminates in a frozen field and an utterly downcast Tattercoats. The scale of the vast fields, beginning with the endpapers, dwarfs the scarecrow, visually expressing his isolation. Jarring in this mood of loneliness is his anger at the animals who tell him news of the family. The creatures are good-natured, but he is angered by their ignorant invitations to run or fly over to the house. The text has a few lovely moments, with Tattercoats' happiness "like sunshine sweeping up a hill," but the expression of mood through vast space and weather is the book's strength. --Jane Saliers, Atlanta Public Library
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