Historical March 1986 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
A little girl’s quilt made with patches from outgrown, beloved garments covers her first grown-up bed.
The quilt’s intricate patterns and colors suggest and create a dream world which she enters to search for her stuffed dog, Sally.
In the morning, they both find themselves tangled up in the quilt on the floor. Ann Jonas’ The Quilt is a fantasy for preschool age children that is beautifully illustrated and simply told.
The little girl’s parents have sewed old memories and love into a charming keepsake and picture book.
The very old, of course, have the most to remember because they have lived the longest.
Two stories for middle grade readers eloquently describe how great a treasure their memories can be for the young.
In The Hundred Penny Box, Michael’s great-great Aunt Dew is a hundred years old and has lovingly stored away in a battered old box a penny for every year of her life.
She has recently come to live with Michael and his parents, and while Aunt Dew is somewhat of a burden to Michael’s mother, she is a delight to Michael who is fascinated by her stories, told as the pennies are counted out. Michael’s mother wants to throw out the old penny box, but Michael understands what Aunt Dew means when she says, “Anybody takes my hundred penny box, takes me.” The Lucky Stone is a series of stories told by Mrs. Eizie Free Pickens to her great-granddaughter Tee about a small stone that has brought good luck to its owners since the 1860s when it saved the life of a young runaway slave girl. Colorful characters and incidents bring an old woman’s past to life as part of black history and as part of a strong, loving family.
In the last story Tee discovers that she is not the only lucky one as she inherits the lucky stone.
If you could live forever, wouldn’t you have a lot of memories!
One of the most unforgettable books for older children, Tuck Everlasting, tells how eleven-year-old Winnie Foster accidently uncovers a fateful secret in the woods near her home.
She meets the Tucks, a family that has not aged a minute after drinking from a magic spring eighty-seven years ago.
They wander the countryside, afraid to linger anywhere too long because people soon come to believe that they have sold their souls to the devil. Winnie is enchanted by the Tucks, especially by seventeen-year-old Jesse, who is really one hundred and four.
They are all very different from her own strict, conventional family. Mysterious music, kidnapping, and pursuit by an evil man in a yellow suit are all part of the many adventures Winnie becomes involved in because of the Tucks. Jesse leaves Winnie with a momentous decision and a small vial of spring water.
When she is seventeen should she choose eternal life with him and a family she has come to love?
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1986.
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