The Purple Coat by Amy Hest
ISBN-10: 0689716346
Gabrielle travels to the city to visit with her grandfather while her mom works. He is a tailor and makes her coats every year, a blue one always.
They have lunch and get exactly what they always have. They try to pursuade her to just try something different.
She tells him she wants a purple coat rather than a blue one, to just try something new and different.
It reminds the grandfather of an orange dress the mom wanted with ruffles. He has a fantastic idea about having a blue coat that goes with everything and a purple coat as well. ( )

The main character, Gabrielle, spends the day with her grandfather, a tailor who makes her winter coat each year. The thing is, she wants a different color coat this year and that news is not received well by her mother. It takes the wisdom of her grandfather to convince her mother to compromise and for Gabrielle to get the coat she wants. ( )

A little girl wants a purple coat even though she always gets a navy blue coat. She finally convinces her grandpa to make her a reversible purple/navy coat.

This is a good example of a realistic fiction because the plot of a girl’s grandpa making her a coat and having to convince him and her mother to let her have a purple one could really happen. ( )

Excellent book that portrays the relationship between a girl and her grandfather in a very positive but realistic light as he sets out to make her a coat for the winter. ( )