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Summary: pieces
Review: excellent book for children, poetry and quilting illlustrations, for adults who love quilting, for teachers who do quilting projects in school classrooms and for any children's book colle ction.
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Summary: Caldecott candidate!
Review: Lyrical poems celebrating the seasons are illustrated with miniature quilts (12" x 18"). Mary Grossnickle Hines as an author writes short poems that are wonderfully evocative. Hines as a quilter has created exquisite fabric pictures. This will surely be one of the Caldecott '02 finalists and it certainly gets my vote as the winner.(I am a librarian and a quilter.)
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Summary: Beautiful, detailed, clever.
Review: There are many things to admire in the book PIECES. First, the quilts. She came up with these gorgeous, fascinating designs that are so lovely, you'll find yourself staring at each for a long time. The stitching: so original. The photography: catches every detail, each stitch, the texture of the fabric. The printing: the color matching is so superb, it should win a prize. The poetry: Here I'm not handing out any prizes, but it is fun to read. (It's recommended for ages 5 and up.) Here's a bit I found especially delightful, from "Misplaced?":
"In a mass of wild confusion flowers bloom in great profusion, brilliant dazzling bold infusion, pink-blue purple stimulation, red-gold-yellow conflagration, rousing raucous celebration, stirring us to jubilation, echoing the exultation of their bright and vibrant show!" It's a short book; there are only about 22 quilts in the whole thing. (The theme is the seasons of the year.) She talks about the making of the quilts at the back of the book. My thought is that this combination of the visual and poetic can stir the imagination. Get your children to try to match up the pieces of fabric within the pictures and from one to another.
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