This anniversary edition includes fifteen pages of original material describing the quilt’s journey and its home at the Mazza Museum in Findley, Ohio.Īs a young Russian Jewish girl in the early 1900s, Anna and her family lived in fear of the Czar’s soldiers. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, Patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family and the quilt’s further story that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. From a basket of old clothes, Anna’s babushka, Uncle Vladimir’s shirt, Aunt Havalah’s nightdress, and an apron of Aunt Natasha’s become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. “It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.”Īnd so it was. “We will make a quilt to help us always remember home,” Anna’s mother said. Two beloved and bestselling classics from Patricia Polacco, now available in one eBook set.
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