It Could Always Be Worse

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It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach, will teache your children when things look bad it might not be as bad as they think.


 a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a little one-room hut." Everyone was crowded and the hut was full of quarreling or crying constantly. The poor unfortunate man was unhappy, and when he "couldn't stand it any more, he ran to the Rabbi for advice."
The Rabbi gives some rather interesting advice to say in the least. The wisdom of the Rabbi isn't apparent until the end of the story, yet in the meantime the story gets extremely entertaining and downright hilarious to the point of hysterics at times--well for my daughter and me! The illustrations are some of the best I have seen as far as going with the story's context.

I highly recommend this book because it has it all: a funny and entertaining story, hilarious illustrations, and a moral that I believe a child can understand well. I recommend this to young and old alike. If you enjoyed, IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PANCAKE and others like it, I know you will love to share this one too with your child.
Laugh together and Soar! [Amazon customer review by Soaring Heart Nov. 11, 2002]







A note about the author:

Margot Zemach was the award-winning children's book illustrator and author of more than 40 children's books, including "Duffy and the Devil, The Judge, To Hilda for Helping and It Could Always Be Worse." [New York Times]