The Keeping Quilt

Author: Patricia Polacco

Illustrator: Patricia Polacco

Publisher: Aladdin, 1988

Publisher’s recommended age: 5+

Patricia Polacco’s recounting of her family’s quilt has become a beloved classic in the thirty years since it was first published. When Anna outgrows the dress she wore to emigrate from Russia to America, her mother has an idea: They use a basket of old clothes, each item with a family member and story behind it to “make a quilt to help us always remember home. It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.” In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, Polacco tells the story of the quilt over four generations as it is loved and lived by a family whose traditions evolve with the times.

Available Languages: English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese