While in my Lit 2 class (a class that's about teaching reading and writing to 4th-6th graders) today I found the most amazing children's book about quilting. It's called
Quilting Now & Then by Karen Bates Willing and Julie Bates Dock. Here it is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Quilting-Now-T.../dp/0964182017
It's a picture book, and one of the cool things is that the illustrations are mixed with actual images of quilts. All the quilters whose works are included are cited in the back. It goes through the start of quilting, with pioneers saving scraps from clothes and using old quilts as batting to the more modern uses of rotary cutters and stores with hundreds of prints of fabric to choose from.
Here's a couple of photos, so you can see what it looks like.
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