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The new quilt is finished, and what a quilt it is! Here is a square from the proud owner's baby pajamas, and one from the shirt she wore on her second birthday. There is even a square of the same material from which her mother made her stuffed dog Sally. How can she possibly sleep when there is so much to look at, and remember, and dream about . . . ?
Author Notes
Ann Jonas was born in Flushing, New York in 1932. She attended Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. After graduation, she worked in graphic design and married fellow Cooper Union graduate and graphic artist Donald Crews. When her husband's military service took them to Frankfurt, Germany in 1963, she worked for a German advertising agency. They moved back to New York and started a freelance design business where she continued to focus on graphic design and her husband focused on illustrating children's books.
After being urged by her husband and his editor to try her hand at creating picture books, she wrote and illustrated When You Were a Baby in 1982. Her other works include Round Trip, Now Can We Go?, The Quilt, Color Dance, Aardvarks, Disembark!, Splash!, Watch William Walk, and Bird Talk. She died on September 29, 2013 at the age of 81.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Vibrant colors and an active imagination figure prominently in this tale of an African American girl's quilt which springs to life overnight. Ages 3-8. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Totally engaging, from the first glimpse of the little girl, in sleepers--""I have a new quilt""--peering out from under a billowing patchwork of patterned squares. There's a definite, '80s lifelikeness too: ""It's to go on my new grown-up bed""; ""My mother and father made it for me. They used some of my old things."" And what happens is almost preordained: holding her stuffed dog Sally, thinking ""It almost looks like a little town. . ,"" the girl drifts off to sleep and drops the dog, as the quilt comes alive. Spread there before us is a magical miniature landscape through which, in full size, she'll search for the missing Sally. There's a circus, a town, a garden of flower patches (""If she hid here, I'd never find her""); a scary tunnel (the words ""Sally! Sally! Sally!"" echo in type); also a moonlit lake, with sailboats, and a thick forest--until, off a cliff, ""I see her!"" At the last they're wrapped together in the quilt on the floor. With the calico pattern of the quilt's lining for the endpapers, and a delicately brown child with a soft cap of crinkly hair: a natural fancy appealingly presented. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
