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The Story Blanket (2008)

by Ferida Wolff(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1561454664 (ISBN13: 9781561454662)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Peachtree Publishers

review 1: I love this book! A tale of Babba Zarrah, a woman with a great heart for others, who secretly unravels her story blanket so she can clothe and help those around her. Not only is the storytelling wonderful--the words themselves, but the illustrations are magnificent--so simple, elegant, directing your mind and eye to just the right images--yet each image holds such texture and depth. (I would pretty please like for Miss Elena Odriozola to illustrate one of my unpublished books...)
review 2: All the kids of an isolated village sit on Babba Zarrah's story blanket to hear her stories. The blanket gets smaller and smaller as Babba uses the wool to make needed items for the villagers until she no longer has a blanket. Once the village learns who is giving away thes... moree items, they unravel portions of their own blankets to give her enough yarn to make another blanket. The kids have a blanket again to sit on for her stories. And once again, Babba sees a need and starts to unravel her blanket...A wonderful story. Sacrifice, kindness and renewal. So much abundance with so little.The illustrations reminded me a bit of Edward Gorey except with color. I love the slight change in the children's faces as they have to squish on the story blanket. less

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