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    The Patchwork Quilt

    Author Valerie Flournoy
    Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
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    $18.99 US
    Penguin Young Readers | Dial Books
    8.75"W x 10.81"H x 0.34"D  
    On sale Mar 29, 1985 | 32 Pages | 9780803700970
    Preschool - 3
    Reading Level: Lexile AD590L
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    Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
    Valerie Flournoy View titles by Valerie Flournoy
    JERRY PINKNEY was one of America’s most acclaimed illustrators. He won the Caldecott Medal, five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. His long list of celebrated titles includes Mirandy and Brother Wind, The Little Red Hen, The Little Match Girl, and The Lion & The Mouse. 

    His family includes a number of acclaimed children's book creators: his son, artist Brian Pinkney; his daughter-in-law, author and children's book editor Andrea Davis Pinkney; and his granddaughter, author-illustrator Charnelle Pinkney Barlow.

    Jerry Pinkney passed away on October 20, 2021 at the age of 81. View titles by Jerry Pinkney
    • WINNER
      Coretta Scott King Awards
    • WINNER
      Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
    This story will leave children moved and satisfied. (School Library Journal, starred review)

    Pinkney interprets the story with warm family scenes that glow. (Booklist)

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    Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

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    Valerie Flournoy View titles by Valerie Flournoy
    JERRY PINKNEY was one of America’s most acclaimed illustrators. He won the Caldecott Medal, five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. His long list of celebrated titles includes Mirandy and Brother Wind, The Little Red Hen, The Little Match Girl, and The Lion & The Mouse. 

    His family includes a number of acclaimed children's book creators: his son, artist Brian Pinkney; his daughter-in-law, author and children's book editor Andrea Davis Pinkney; and his granddaughter, author-illustrator Charnelle Pinkney Barlow.

    Jerry Pinkney passed away on October 20, 2021 at the age of 81. View titles by Jerry Pinkney

    Awards

    • WINNER
      Coretta Scott King Awards
    • WINNER
      Ezra Jack Keats Book Award

    Praise

    This story will leave children moved and satisfied. (School Library Journal, starred review)

    Pinkney interprets the story with warm family scenes that glow. (Booklist)

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