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When a tailor asks each of his three sons to make a cloak for the archduke, the third son's design reveals his desire to travel the world rather than follow in his father's footsteps.

In this version of the Andersen tale the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind, suit that will be visible only to intelligent people who are good at their jobs.

The story begins in the ancient Cathedral city of Gloucester long, long ago.

Explores the daily lives of tailors in colonial America and examines the many tasks they performed in their communities.

Although Tippett the tailor has trouble getting around to returning farmer Clancy's old winter coat, he is quicker to take advantage of the opportunity to mend a broken friendship.

As it gradually gets harder to make a living, Uncle Gurney leaves his family and the tailoring business and heads West with his nephew Theo's drawings to complete a mysterious project.

King Bertrand announces that a royal ball will be held to find his son a wife, and all the girls in the kingdom want Finn the tailor to make their gowns; but when a group of faires want new gowns as well, Finn refuses.

Presents the basics of sewing through the story of Bruno the beaver, a tailor who decides to make himself a new apron.

A stranger arrives at a remote village and becomes the tailor, sewing magical embroidered scenes into the pockets of their plain clothes, which transforms their humdrum lives forever.

When Great-uncle Max, the tailor, becomes sick and can no longer sew, nephew Aaron becomes his "hands" and together they create something special.

A retelling of one of Rabbi Nachman's tales in which a tailor, dreaming that the moon is cold in the sky, goes in search of a special fabric with which to make it a cloak.

Martin Greenfield was taken from his Czechoslovakian home in 1944 at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family.

Mr. Frank has been a tailor all his life, but on his last day of work he receives an order for the most important outfit he has ever created.

After her father, a tailor, becomes ill, Saville disguises herself as a boy and ends up rescuing the kingdom from giants.

A small act of beauty in the midst of environmental degradation reminds young readers of their own agency and of the life-affirming strength of family and community.