Helpful Score: 1
A beautiful story with gorgeous illustrations. A wonderful story of generosity and kindness; one of my very favorite children's stories.
Helpful Score: 1
This book is a faily lengthy story of giving, sacrifice, and thoughtfulness. The heavy themes play well in this book, with a great story to carry them along. The story is worded in a more complex way - no rhyming, longer sentences, longer paragraphs. It's more suitable for the 4-8 crowd, or an advanced 3 yr old.
The text is set against complex colorful illustrations. Pages utilize classic quilting patterns at background. The illustrations are very interesting and often stall our reading of the story (so that the kids can look further before turning the page). They are also a bit busy, which I find distracting when trying to read the book. It isn't too hard, though, and the heartwarming tale makes it very worthwhile.
I highly recommend this text. I've given it as gifts to many people with success. [It's especially adored by grandmothers who are quilters!]
The text is set against complex colorful illustrations. Pages utilize classic quilting patterns at background. The illustrations are very interesting and often stall our reading of the story (so that the kids can look further before turning the page). They are also a bit busy, which I find distracting when trying to read the book. It isn't too hard, though, and the heartwarming tale makes it very worthwhile.
I highly recommend this text. I've given it as gifts to many people with success. [It's especially adored by grandmothers who are quilters!]
Helpful Score: 1
One of our family's favorite books. A lesson in love, selflessness, and true joy.
A wonderful story of the joy of giving! Beautifully written and beautifully illustrated! I can't recommend it enough!
Loved the story and the wonderful illustrations!!!
This is a wonderful story about giving. The artwork is incredible. It is a story every child should grow up reading!
wonderful and colorful story!
Sorry guys, this is a keeper. I saw the quilt book first and was looking forward to this. It is for me to read to my grand kids. It has a wonderful message about greed.
Gift copy! Book of the year Book Sense.
As intricately worked as a patchwork quilt, de Marcken's (Born to Pull) fanciful watercolors are the highlight of this somewhat pedestrian fable. Rich but dissatisfied, a king demands a quilt from a gifted quiltmaker, but she refuses unless he gives away all his material possessions. The irate monarch twice attempts to punish her but both times she foils him. Finally he agrees to her demand, growing progressively happier with each thing that he gives away. Brumbeau's overlong tale treads a well-worn trail here, hampered by bursts of overwrought prose ("the king's great sunny laugh made green apples fall and flowers turn his way"). The artwork achieves a dizzying, quilted look with lush full-page illustrations in cotton-candy colors sharing a spread with saucy vignettes; "the king could not sleep" for instance, inspires a droll four-panel peek at the restless fellow tossing and turning in bed. De Marcken pays homage at every turn to the quiltmaker's craft. Each section of text appears on a plain cream "block" with stitching around the edges, and the endpapers sport an array of labeled quilt patterns. This is a gorgeous book.
As intricately worked as a patchwork quilt, de Marcken's (Born to Pull) fanciful watercolors are the highlight of this somewhat pedestrian fable. Rich but dissatisfied, a king demands a quilt from a gifted quiltmaker, but she refuses unless he gives away all his material possessions. The irate monarch twice attempts to punish her but both times she foils him. Finally he agrees to her demand, growing progressively happier with each thing that he gives away. Brumbeau's overlong tale treads a well-worn trail here, hampered by bursts of overwrought prose ("the king's great sunny laugh made green apples fall and flowers turn his way"). The artwork achieves a dizzying, quilted look with lush full-page illustrations in cotton-candy colors sharing a spread with saucy vignettes; "the king could not sleep" for instance, inspires a droll four-panel peek at the restless fellow tossing and turning in bed. De Marcken pays homage at every turn to the quiltmaker's craft. Each section of text appears on a plain cream "block" with stitching around the edges, and the endpapers sport an array of labeled quilt patterns. This is a gorgeous book.
