The Magic Raincoat

To Emily’s surprise, the orange raincoat that her mother bought her is even better than the yellow one Emily wanted—this raincoat is magical! “I wish you were a dog,” Emily said to her brother, and, just then, he turns into a dog. “I wish I had a million dollars,” Emily says, and, just then, two men show up at her door with a bulging briefcase. After Emily learns that she should use her new raincoat only for good causes, the raincoat disappears. “You wanted a yellow one and our neighbors’ girl, Mei, wanted an orange one, so I traded with Mei’s mother last night,” Emily’s mother explains. Through spirited prose and detailed ink-and-collage illustrations, readers will enjoy following Emily as she gains, loses, and tries to recover her raincoat.