LitPick Review
Age at time of review - 13
Reviewer's Location -
Shippensburg,
PA,
United States
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Stitchin' and Pullin' is a picture book of several
poems. Baby Girl is telling the story. She is telling a
story of a quilting group called Gee's Bend. She sits by
the group and listens to their stories and songs while she
waits for her turn to quilt. Then she makes her own
quilt. Her grandma tells her that her quilt should have a
story like hers did. So she does tell a story in her
quilt. Three strips of brown cotton border her quilt like
Gee's Bend is surrounded on three sides by muddy waters.
A strip of green symbolizes the fields where their
ancesters worked cotton. A large gray square stands for
hard times. It also tells about who discovered the Gee's
Bend quilts, and how some of the quilts got placed in
museums. This book tells the history and story of their
community.
Opinion:
Stitchin and Pullin' is a great book.
It has very detailed and descriptive poems. One of my
favorite poems is about the colors. It talks about what
the colors stand for. Some examples are green oozes,
orange laughs, pink smiles, and many others. The poems
also show how the writer feels for about her grandma,
mother, and her cousin. This book is very interesting. I
loved this book because it tells the history of her family
and Gee's Bend.
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