Description
For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have made quilts to keep a family warm, as a pastime accompanied by sharing and singing, or to memorialize loved ones. Today, some of the same quilts hang on our museum walls as modern masterpieces of color and design. Inspired by these quilts and the women who made them, award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack traveled to Alabama to learn their stories. The lyrical rite-of-passage narrative that is the result of her journey seamlessly weaves together the familial, cultural, spiritual, and historical strands of life in this community. Told through a collection of poems, this is the story of the quilt-making community in Gee’s Bend, Alabama.
- Ages 5-9
- Author: Patricia McKissack
- Illustrator: Cozbi A. Cabrera
- Softcover
- Publisher: Dragonfly Books, 2016
- 48 pages, 11" x 9"
- ISBN: 9780399549502
