BIBLIOGRAPHY
NMT offers a longer list of stories
or books with illustrations that go along with the quilting theme.
The following list includes a few of my favorites:
Brumbeau, Jeff. The Quiltmaker's Gift. Illustrated by Gail de Marcken. Duluth, Minn., Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1999.
ISBN 1570251991 ages 4-8
A quiltmaker makes quilts and gives them away. The greedy king who has just about everything decides that he wants her to make a quilt for him.--Roxane
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Coerr, Eleanor. The Josefina Story Quilt. Pictures by Bruce Degen. 1st ed. New York, Harper & Row, 1986.
64 p. col. ill. 23 cm. (An I can read book) ISBN 0060213485 ages 4-8
While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System
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Ernst, Lisa Campbell. Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1983.
32 p. col. ill. 21 x 26 cm. ISBN 0688015166 ages 4-8
While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System and Mary Lou Burket.
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Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork Quilt. Pictures by Jerry Pinkney. 1st ed. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1985.
[32] p. col. ill. 28 cm. ISBN 0803700970 ages 6-9
Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System and Mary Lou Burket.
Franco, Betsy. TexTile Math. Creative Publications. By Solving questions related to beautiful textile designs, students discover that math and art are perfect patterns. Using colorful squares and triangles called TexTiles, students explore geometry, numbers, area, fractions, logic, and discrete mathematics. The multicultural themes throughout the book give the math concepts greater relevance and depth.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Illustrated by James Ransome. New York, Knopf, 1993.
ISBN 0679823115 ages 4-8
A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System
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Johnston, Tony. The Quilt Story. Pictures by Tomie dePaola. New York, Putnam, 1985.
32 p. col. ill. 27 cm. ages 4-7
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail. Many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System and Mary Lou Burket
Paul, Ann Whitford. Eight Hands Round; A Patchwork Alphabet. Illustrated by Jeanette Winter. 1st ed. New York, HarperCollins, 1991.
31 p. col. ill. 27 cm. ISBN 0060246898 ages 4-8
Introduces the letters of the alphabet with names of early American patchwork quilt patterns and explains the origins of the designs by describing the activity or occupation they derive from.
Sub by: The Hope Quilt Project at Boulder Valley Public Schools and Mary Lou Burket.
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Polacco, Patricia. The keeping Quilt. New York, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1988.
[32] p. all ill. (chiefly col.) 23 x 28 cm. ISBN 0671649639 ages 4-9
A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
Sub by: Mary Lou Burket.
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Ransom, Candice F. The Promise Quilt, illustrated by Ellen Beier. Walker, 1999.
32 p. ISBN 0802786944 ages 4-8
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Smucker, Barbara Claasen. Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt. Illustrated by Janet Wilson. New York, Crown Publishers, 1996.
ISBN 051770904X ages 4-8
When her Mennonite family moves to Upper Canada to avoid involvement in the Civil War, young Selina is given a special quilt to remember the grandmother she left behind.
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Symonds, Paula Quilting Through The Year. A Teaching Resource Center Publication. This book is filled with art activities, two for each month, which use quilting to teach and reinforce a variety of math skills.
Waterstone, Rachel. Who's under Grandma's Quilt? First Story Press, 1997.
32 p. ill. ISBN 1-890326-08-9 ages 3-6
Sub by: Janie Stokes
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Willard, Nancy. The Mountains of Quilt. Pictures by Tomie dePaola. 1st ed. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1987.
32 p. col. ill. 29 cm. ISBN 0152560106 ages 4-8
Four magicians lose their magic carpet which eventually finds it way into the center of a grandmother's quilt.
Sub by: Rio Grande Valley Library System and Mary Lou Burket.
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Willing, Karen Bates and Julie Bates Dock. Quilting Now & Then. Illustrated by Sarah Morse. Ashland, Ore., Now & Then Publications, 1994.
34 p. col. ill. 23 x 29 cm. ISBN 0964182009, 0964182017 (pbk) ages 4-8
In verse Shirley Johnson explains to her children how she quilts today and how the pioneers sewed long ago.
Sub by: Janie Stokes
Technically this book is not fiction, but I have included it because of the quilt illustrations--BR
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