She spent the summers with her father in Williamston, Michigan and the rest of the year with her mother and grandparents on a farm. Her parents divorced when she was three but both parents were very much a part of her childhood. Patricia Polacco was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1944.
When seen together, these caricatures, colors and quilts produce the feeling of comfort associated with folk art. Since the shape of the book is rectangular and it is bound horizontally, the double page illustration showing the large gathering of quilters captures the spirit of cooperation. The exceptions are double page spreads that serve to highlight the story's theme. Most of the compositions are contained on single pages. The illustrations contain a variety of smooth and course textures, as well as varied prints and patterned fabrics. The texture produced by conte crayon or pencil on rough-surfaced paper replicates the feeling of fabrics. When color is used, it serves to highlight or focus on the fabric worn by the central character and on the quilt itself. The effect is one of recollection, or perhaps of fading diary pages. Sepia colored figures are carefully drawn on textured off-white paper. When it becomes a blanket for new generations of children, it really tells a family's story of love, faith and endurance. It becomes a Sabbath tablecloth and a wedding canopy. The quilt is passed along from mother to daughter for four generations. She plans to make a quilt from a basket of old clothes, telling her daughter, "It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night". Grades K-3.Ī Russian immigrant mother and family arrive in the United States.
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