THE SEASONS SEWN:
A Year in Patchwork

Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
Browndeer Press, Harcourt Brace, Inc., 1996
ISBN 0-15-276918-8
Paperback ISBN 0-15-202107-8

This unique book uses quilt patterns
to explain the seasonal flow of life in our country during the 19th Century.

Winner of the 1996 Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award
for Children’s Literature
1996 NAPPA Award
One of the New York Times Best Illustrated Books for 1996
Notable Social Studies Trade Book of 1996
 
 

REVIEWS

The New York Times
“So beautiful and so filled with real archetypal patterns that it could easily make quilt lovers, if not quilt makers, of us all.”

Publishers Weekly—Starred Review
“A commanding vision of American history.”

The Los Angeles Times
“Innovative and unexpectedly poignant nonfiction.”

Booklist
“An attractive combination of craft and history.”

    

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