The Mountains of Quilt [Library Binding]

Nancy Willard (Author), Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1987

While a grandmother is busy making quilts, four bungling magicians are busy making spells. Along comes a runaway magic carpet and a playful magpie, and everything is turned topsy-turvy! Full-color illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Willard's latest creation features a bespectacled grandmother, a mischievous magpie and four magicians representing the mountains of Sandusky, Elyria, Cleveland and Detroit. The grandmother has nearly completed a quilt "red as embers, green as ferns, with a border of silver and gold stars on sky-blue velvet." The magicians, who lunch together on Tuesdays, have invented a pair of special spectacles, a bewitched baseball, musical sneakers and a magic flying carpet colored in red, green, silver and gold. How the magpie unites the magicians, the near-sighted grandmother, the flying carpet and the quilt is an imaginative bit of hocus-pocus enlivened by dePaola's whimsical artistry. Wonderful for reading aloud. Ages 4-8.
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Product Details

• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books (J); 1st edition (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152560106
• ISBN-13: 978-0152560102
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,386,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Willard and dePaola make a wonderful team., July 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mountains of Quilt (Paperback)

This book is a magical tale of a grandmother that enlightens and enthrawls its readers. I highly recommend this book for K-2. It is also an excellent resource for teachers.