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Hegamin has created a beautiful book that parents, teachers and friends can use to help younger kids to understand the horrors and hardships of slavery, as well as the often unsung love that helped people to survive this horrific period in American history. Perfect for anyone who wants to start a conversation about slavery with children. Sad, yes, but honest. Wonderful!

I believe because I am a quilter, I enjoyed this book and the artwork, but my class, overall, was not taken with it. When I finished reading it aloud to them they pretty much just wanted to move on to something else. It was difficult to illicit any input about connections or opinions on it.

This book is beautifully written! The story is a poem that describes a heart-wrenching tale of the love between a mother and child and the immense sacrifices a mother will make in her child's best interest. Although you may cry when reading it, it is an excellent tool to teach your children about the suffering that others are subjected to in unjust times in a way that your child will understand. Because the story is based in such powerful love, may be used as a springboard to talk about compassion for others and how our decisions affect other people. The author writes a helpful explanation of how to use this book as a teaching tool. The illustrations are also gorgeous.

this was such a good story. i just flipped through it with the intention of putting it down, but it was really touching. it is a story about a girl and her mother, both of which are slaves at the time of the black slave trade, and the story is told through the eyes of the girl, who is very young and doesnt really grasp the reality of the situation. she just knows that her mother works hard in the fields and that she helps her by rubbing some salve in them at night. her mother makes quilt patches throughout the story and at the end makes a quilt for her daughter. the story ends with the mother giving the daughter to group of people in the underground railroad so that she'll maybe have a better life somewhere else. it was pretty sad, but good.