![]() ![]() The family packs up its most precious possessions, including her papa’s sewing machine and the beautiful china teapot and cups that were a wedding present. Devotees of The Keeping Quilt will recognize Anna’s babushka, which became the border of the quilt, on the young Anna when the czar’s soldiers come to their Russian town to burn the temple and expel all the Jews. ![]() The pictures, vibrant and brilliantly suggestive of movement, are mostly black-and-white, shaded with her signature use of color to highlight certain details. In this brand-new companion, Polacco turns to her great-grandmother Anna’s story of how she came to America. Polacco has a gift for turning her own family stories into picture books that can touch the hearts of all. ![]()
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