In A New Coat For Anna I learned two important things: When there is a war it is very hard to buy things and after the war ends you might not have any money. The problem in the story was that Anna needed a new coat but Anna's mother couldn't buy one. They went to a farmer, a spinner, a weaver, and a tailor and all together they made Anna's new coat. Anna's mother did not have any money, but she used Grandpa's gold watch and some other nice things (a beautiful lamp, a garnet necklace, and a porcelain teapot) to get Anna's coat. This kind of trading is called bartering. My favorite part of the story was that they got her coat done in time for Christmas.