![]() ![]() The story is a beautiful tale of a family's legacy both in text and in illustration. Polacco details the various uses of the quilt âÛ" the wedding huppah, a new baby's blanket, a tablecloth for birthday celebrations, and in child's play as a tent or a cape. ![]() Polacco is the current keeper of the quilt. The quilt becomes a legacy that is passed on to women in the family for the next four generations. One illustration depicts the women working cooperatively to create the quilt. "'We will make a quilt to help us always remember home,' Anna's mother said, `It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.'" Anna's mother invites her neighbors to help her cut out the pieces of the quilt and stitch it together. ![]() In The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco, the young immigrant's mother preserves her family's Russian heritage on a quilt that she makes from her daughter's babushka, an outgrown dress, and articles of clothing from various family members. A young Russian immigrant, Anna, arrives in the United States where she discovers an unfamiliar hurried pace of life and a language she doesn't understand. ![]()
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