Author 7: Jeff Brumbeau writing about quilts

These two are among our favorites! We check these books out of the library over and over again. First is The Quiltmaker's Gift followed by The Quiltmaker's Journey which is a prequel. Fabulous illustrations, beautiful stories-what's not to appreciate, learn from, and love?
In the first book we meet a selfish king who wants a quilt-but he's asked to earn the quilt despite his attempts to just take a quilt.

The quiltmaker wasn't always the woman making quilts on the mountain. Once she was a girl with everything living in a sheltered town that did not know poverty or want in anyway other than the unhappiness that she felt of having everything and not helping those less fortunate. She leaves the town through a hidden passageway out to the world beyond. When she returns to the town she tells them of her discoveries at which they scoff and she chooses to leave. But, she must leave with nothing except her clothes she is wearing and her mother's ring. She wants to help but finds she can't help some people because she does not know how. At last she finds a mother and child sleeping out in the cold and she knows what she can do. Thus starts her work of making quilts.

Author Jeff Brumbeau and the illustrator Gail de Marcken have a website at http://www.quiltmakersgift.com At their site you can find more books about quilting along with stories inspired by the books.