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The Patchwork Quilt
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The Patchwork Quilt Hardcover - 1985

by Flournoy, Valerie

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Tanya loves listening to her grandmother talk about the quilt she is making from pieces of colorful fabric from the family clothes. When Grandma becomes ill, Tanya decides to finish Grandma's masterpiece with the help of her family. Full color.

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Penguin Young Readers Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title The Patchwork Quilt
  • Author Flournoy, Valerie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group, New York
  • Date 1985-03-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102278250
  • ISBN 9780803700970 / 0803700970
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.94 x 8.72 x 0.4 in (27.79 x 22.15 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 590
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Family life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84001711
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

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Media reviews

This story will leave children moved and satisfied. (School Library Journal, starred review)

Pinkney interprets the story with warm family scenes that glow. (Booklist)

Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/1993, Page 810

About the author

Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.

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