The keeping quilt - patricia polacco

The author shares the story of the quilt that her great-great-grandmother and her immigrant neighbors created in long-ago New York, which has been passed down through four generations of the authors family.

Full-color illustrations.

We will make a quilt to help us always remember home, Annas mother said.

It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.

And so it was.

From a basket of old clothes, Annas babushka, Uncle Vladimirs shirt, Aunt Havalahs nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natashas become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century.

For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world.

In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith.