Find Request It
Cover Image

The quilt

A child's new patchwork quilt recalls old memories and provides new adventure at bedtime.

Saved in:
Main Author: Jonas, Ann
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Greenwillow books, c1984.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Quilts > Juvenile fiction.
Bedtime > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, American.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Summary:A child's new patchwork quilt recalls old memories and provides new adventure at bedtime.
Physical Description:[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:0688038255
9780688038250
0688038263 (lib. bdg.)
9780688038267 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Ann Jonas was born in Flushing, New York in 1932. She attended Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. After graduation, she worked in graphic design and married fellow Cooper Union graduate and graphic artist Donald Crews. When her husband's military service took them to Frankfurt, Germany in 1963, she worked for a German advertising agency. They moved back to New York and started a freelance design business where she continued to focus on graphic design and her husband focused on illustrating children's books.

After being urged by her husband and his editor to try her hand at creating picture books, she wrote and illustrated When You Were a Baby in 1982. Her other works include Round Trip, Now Can We Go?, The Quilt, Color Dance, Aardvarks, Disembark!, Splash!, Watch William Walk, and Bird Talk. She died on September 29, 2013 at the age of 81.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Similar Items