Book Description
for The All-Together Quilt by Lizzy Rockwell
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
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. (Ages 5-8)
CCBC Choices 2021. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021. Used with permission.