Stitchin' and Pullin'

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This story is written by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Cozbi A. Inspired by the celebrated Gee’s Bend quilts and their makers, New York-based artist Cozbi Cabrera painted just over 20 illustrations to accompany McKissack’s prose for the children‘s book Stitchin’ and Pullin’ a Gee‘s Bend Quilt. These colorful, heart-warming works of art, showing variety of Cabrera’s famous hand-made dolls and quilts, will provide a fun and engaging atmosphere for visitors to experience the wonder that is the Gee’s Bend phenomenon. [1]   

Summary

For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have made quilts to keep a family warm, as a pastime accompanied by sharing and singing, or to memorialize loved ones. Today, the same quilts hang on museum walls as modern masterpieces of color and design. Inspired by these quilts and the women who made them, award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack traveled to Alabama to learn their stories. The lyrical rite-of-passage narrative that is the result of her trip seamlessly weaves together the familial, cultural, spiritual, and historical strands of life in this community. [2]

Pros

Patricia McKissack mention the reason behind this book. she said as long as anybody can remember, the women of Gee’s Bend have stitched up quilts—to be slept on and under, sat on at a picnic, wrapped in when sick, or covered with while reading on a cold winter night. Who would have thought that one day those same quilts would be hanging on museum walls, their famous makers, nobody would have never had that thought. [3]

Kirkus gave the review about this book, this book is an outstanding way to introduce aspects of African-American history and explore the power of community.” Cabrera’s paintings are warm and textured and glow from the pages. [4]

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