Picture Books for Children by Mary Northrup

Author:Mary Northrup [Northrup, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT009000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
ISBN: 978-0-8389-9460-3
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2012-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

In this story about the use of quilts in the Underground Railroad, a little girl witnesses her mother sewing pieces together. Her mother explains what the squares mean and eventually sends her daughter off to freedom with the quilt around her. Rich illustrations, rendered in acrylic paint and textile collages, wonderfully express a little girl’s curiosity and her mother’s pain and hope. Many of the scenes are set against a dark background, reflecting the subject and the fact that much of the action takes place at night. The important quilt squares—the North Star, the log cabin, the tree with moss on the north side, and the little girl surrounded by a heart—depict easy symbols for young readers to understand, just as they were for the girl in the story. Don’t miss the endpapers, which consist of pieced quilts. An extensive author’s note and a list of books and websites for further reading close the book. Include with other books on quilts and slavery, such as Jacqueline Woodson’s Show Way (Putnam’s, 2005) and Deborah Hopkinson’s Under the Quilt of Night (Anne Schwartz/Atheneum, 2001).

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