Simms Taback won the Caldecott Medal — given for the best-illustrated children's book of the year — for "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat" in 2000. That book and Taback's 1998 Caldecott Honor ...

Simms Taback, . . Viking, $16.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-670-06192-1 Inspired by a Woody Guthrie song, Caldecott Medalist Taback (Joseph Had a Little Overcoat ) crafts a terrific and touching book.

On the flip side, Two Little Witches: A Counting Story (1996) by Harriet Ziefert, illus. by Simms Taback, uses an ever-growing group of trick-or-treaters to teach addition skills.