"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna'smother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russiadance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes,Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdressand an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For fourgenerations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy,and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are asheartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story ofher own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of theirenduring love and faith.
A young man, brave in battle and a leader in the buffalo hunt,is too shy to speak to the woman he loves. Sad and lonely, hewanders far into the woods. There, he meets two Elk men. They givehim a a flute that the birds and animals have made for him. When heplays it, the harmony of nature is in his melodies and he speaksstraight to the heart of the girl he loves.
There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. Andwhile the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime worldawakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an applefalls -- pump! -- from the tree. Listen. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Whoelse is up so late? Who else watches and hears the sights andsounds of night in the country -- the many stirrings of silence,the many colors of the dark? Lyrical text and velvety pictures present a very different kindof nighttime: a mysterious, moving night that will lull smallchildren to sleep.
Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman’s daughter who dreamsrich and lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when hertall stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs,Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality.
