The All-Together Quilt
Every Friday Jennifer and friends meet at the community center to work on making a quilt. Each boy and girl is paired with an older adult who helps them with tracing, cutting, pinning, and sewing their squares until they have eight pairs of squares, and a center square with a peace symbol created by one quilter. With all the pieces ready, they put them together to form nine possible combinations before agreeing on the one they like best and starting work on a border that will feature the children’s own handprints. The diverse, mixed-age group of quilters portrayed here is based on a real community quilt project at a Senior Housing Complex in Norwalk, Connecticut, a photo of which is included at the back of the book. The endnotes also include nine classic quilt blocks and information about each fabric shown in the book. ©2021 Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-8
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Art and Artists
Collaboration
Community
Older Adults
Sewing and Quilting
Diversity subject:
Brown Skin Unspecified
Publishers:
Knopf, Penguin Random House
Publish Year: 2020
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780375822049
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Rockwell