The Quilt

Name: The Quilt
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gary Paulsen
ISBN: 9781455809165

Author: Gary Paulsen

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 1 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/20/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small Minnesota town. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There’s plenty for the boy to do – trying to help with the chores; getting to know the dog and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes into labor, he can’t do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on the quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of the boy’s family. And as they wait, and work, the women share these stories with the boy. In this spare, affecting novel, ordinary life and ordinary things take on a new meaning, and the bond between a boy and his grandmother shines through.

About Gary Paulsen

Three-time Newbery-winning author Gary Paulsen, hailed as "one of the best-loved writers alive" by the New York Times, divides his time between his ranch in New Mexico, a sailboat on the Pacific Ocean, and his dog-kennel in Alaska. He's written over 200 books for young people, stories that have been embraced by readers of all ages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on October 22, 2024

An absolute delight to read as an adult - I truly wonder what my response would have been as a younger me - the depths it took me now, surely would have been missed in those shallow years. Regardless, a 5 star recommendation. I'm eagerly seeking out the #1 and #2 of this series to fill in the gaps. F......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on August 08, 2021

Thirteen years: that's the time frame in which Gary Paulsen published his Alida series. Long enough for a newborn babe to enter adolescence, or an elementary school kid to become an adult. Many who were young when The Cookcamp came out in 1991 had aged out of reading children's literature by the tim......more

Goodreads review by Martha on May 10, 2017

This was lovely and had me in tears by the end. Gary Paulsen has painful memories of his mother but some wonderful memories of his grandmother, Alida. He spent summers with Alida and one summer, as a six-year-old boy, was particularly memorable. Alida and young Gary are driven on an old, lumbering t......more

Goodreads review by Ella on February 28, 2009

After reading Yellow Star (which was a great insight on the holocaust by the way) I found this book very dissapointing. Although the author was in the war at the time I didn't find it real enough for me. I think he was a bit to young to comprehend what the 'war' was as a 6-year-old. This was an easy......more

Goodreads review by C.J. on June 01, 2018

During WWII, the boy is staying with his grandmother again when word comes via the party line telephone that Alida is needed on one of the outlying farms. The woman running the place alone (because her husband is fighting in the war) is about to go into labor. Naming cows and speaking Norwegian. Fre......more