Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt
Author Barbara Smucker combines quiltmaking with a little known aspect of the Civil War in her children’s picture book, Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt. Illustrator Janet Wilson creates colorful quilt designs throughout the book.
Selina, a Mennonite girl, learns the story of the fabrics in the Bear Paw Quilt Grandmother is making. When the Mennonites must move to Canada during the Civil War, due to their pacifist beliefs, Grandmother stays behind. She gives Selina the Bear Paw quilt to remember her by. Selina finds the same fabrics in a quilt the Canadian relatives show her, thus further linking the families. She also learns that the Bear Paw design is known as Duck’s Foot-in-the-Mud.
Designs in and around the pictures throughout the story include Four Patch, Bear Paw Variation, Shooting Star, Strips with Bear Paw Corners, Grandmother’s Fan, Cornerstone and Strips, Sawtooth Star, Flying Geese, Four-Patch Variation, Strips and Diamond Cornerstones, Log Cabin, and more.
I found this an excellent book for introducing quilting and the various patterns to youngsters as well as giving them insight into the Civil War.
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