Benjy's blanket / adapted by Miguel Gouveia ; and illustrated by Raquel Catalina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gouveia, Miguel, author.

Contributor:

Catalina, Raquel, 1973- illustrator.

Standardized Title:

Manta do José. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Grandparent and child--Juvenile fiction.

Grandparent and child.

Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.

Grandfathers.

Salvage (Waste, etc.)--Juvenile fiction.

Salvage (Waste, etc.).

Genre:

picture books.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Picture books.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Green Bean Books, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

When Benjy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, gives him a beautiful handmade blanket to keep him warm in his cot. As Benjy grows, he takes his blanket with him everywhere. He loves it so much that even when it becomes ragged and stained, he will do anything to stop his mother from throwing it out. He enlists his resourceful grandfather who cuts, measures and sews and turns the blanket into a coat. Benjy wears the coat every day, morning to night until he grows too tight and his mother threatens again to throw it away. His grandfather turns it into a waistcoat and when that no longer fits, it becomes a handkerchief, and when the handkerchief is torn beyond repair, it is finally turned into a button. But then Joseph loses the button and his grandfather must come up with an even more imaginative solution - one that will ensure the blanket will last forever.

Notes:

Originally published as: A Manta do José. Portugal : Bruaá Editora, 2019.

ISBN:

9781784386320

1784386324

9781784386368

1784386367

OCLC:

1296600953