Kids' Reading Clubhouse--The Quilt Walk

This month, we read The Quilt Walk by Sandra Dallas.

Isn't this a gorgeous cover

It was a bit slower than the other books we've read--kind of like the long walk Emmy Blue and her family took from Illinois to Colorado. It wasn't magical like Pippi Longstocking or thrilling like The Spiderwick Chronicles. But still, it was good. We laughed a bit, gasped some, and we learned a lot.

When the girls and I met, we focused on the stories quilts tell.

Each girl made a log cabin quilt square.

And we put them all together to make a paper quilt. 

Then we looked at a quilt that a friend made for our family.

And each girl wrote about what she thought the bear was doing. We made up our own stories.

We ate dried apple pie for snack and named the two things (and only two) that we would bring along if we had to walk from Illinois to Colorado back in 1863. Tough choice. My favorite answer was from a little girl who said, "I'd bring my blanket and a huge stack of books." I told her she could only bring one book if she brought her blanket. "Well, hmm," she said. "That's impossible."

2013 Book Club Line-up

Yesterday was our book club's annual tea and planning meeting. This year we met at Oak and Berries Tea Room in The Denver Museum of Dolls and Miniatures, which was so quirky and non-hip, that it was pretty cool. It was actually really lovely, and I highly recommend it. Between tea and tiny sandwiches, we each offered our book suggestion for the year and nabbed a month to host.

Here's the line-up...


February
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

March
Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza

April
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

May
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

June
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

SKIPPING JULY--HAVE FUN WITH THE BEACH READS

August
End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

September
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

October
Little Princes by Conor Grennan

November
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

December
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Cheers!