I Like Old Clothes

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Text copyright © 1976, copyright renewed 2004 by Mary Ann Hoberman
Jacket art and interior illustrations copyright © 2012 by Patrice Barton

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published with different illustrations by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoberman, Mary Ann.
I like old clothes / by Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrations by Patrice Barton.
p.   cm.
“Originally published with different illustrations by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976”—Copyright p.
Summary: A child who likes wearing hand-me-downs imagines in verse the history of these clothes.
ISBN 978-0-375-86951-8 (trade)
ISBN 978-0-375-96951-5 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-375-98363-4 (ebook)
 [1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Clothing and dress—Fiction.] I. Barton, Patrice, ill. II. Title.
PZ8.3.H66Iab 2012
 [E]—dc22
2010038292

The illustrations were created using pencil sketches and mixed media, assembled and painted digitally.

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

First Page

About the Author and Illustrator

For my granddaughters Dorothy and Kit (who really like old clothes)
—M.A.H.

For my son, Seth, with love
—P.B.

I
like old clothes,

Hand-me-down clothes,

Worn outgrown clothes,

Not-my-own clothes.

When somebody grows

And gives me her clothes,

I don’t say, “What,
those
?”

And turn up my nose

The way some people do

When their clothes aren’t new.

I
like
old clothes.

I really do.

Clothes with a history,

Clothes with a mystery,

Sweaters and shirts

That are brother-and-sistery,