Illustrator: Cozbi A. CabreraFor: Anybody who loves quilts!
Published: Oct., 2008
Rating: 5/Wonderful book
Read: 12/18/08
Endpapers: folky painted quilts-red white, and black on the left, multi-greens on the right.
With INTRODUCTION and informative AUTHOR'S NOTE.
Who Would Have Thought....
For as long as anybody can remember,
the women of Gees Bend
have stitched up quilts ---
to be slept on and under,
sat on at a picnic,
wrapped in when sick,
or covered with while reading
on a cold winter night.
Who would have thought
that one day those same quilts
would be hanging on museum walls,
their makers famous?
Who would have ever thought?
Told in free verse poems using beautiful, gorgeous, figurative language, clever conventions, and WOWZER articulation...
Gee's Bend got the hiccups from
all the excitement
of cameras clicking,
writers scribbling on pads,
people talking breathlessly,
never waiting for answers.
I saw an exhibition of Gee's Bend Quilts last year at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. This book is full of history -- of Gee's Bend, Alabama, of the civil rights movement, of pieces of American history, the art of storytelling, the art of quiltmaking -- all coming togther in the now-famous story of the quilts and quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama.
1 comment:
awesome book in my opinion everyone in the world should have the opportunity to be able to read this wonderful book!!!!!!!
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