quilts

Rhyming text follows the numbers from one to ten and back again to describe how a special family quilt is made.

With a hard winter on the way, Grandmother uses her family's rags and stories to create a cozy quilt.

An A to Z exploration of quilting that includes rhyming poems and information about its history and techniques.

Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

Ernest and Celestine make a patchwork quilt, but when they realize only one can use it, they make another one.

Grandmother tells her granddaughter the family stories behind the various blocks in a patchwork quilt. Illustrated with wood block prints of the quilt patches and including instructions for making a small patchwork quilt.

Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the North.