The Elephant Quilt
What's This Book About
“We’re going to see the Elephant!” That’s what people say when they head West on a journey promising to be “something powerful strange. Like a real live elephant, but even bigger - stranger - wilder - scarier!” Lily Rose is raring to go. Along the way she’ll help stitch her family’s adventures into a grand and glorious quilt.Inspired by a quilt sewn by young Mary Margaret Hezlep in 1859 during her journey West, readers will relish this spirited tale with its lively heroine and bold pictures, cleverly designed to include quilted elements. And they’ll have fun finding the elephant hidden in the final quilt and tracing Lily Rose’s journey from Missouri to California in the quilt border–a reminder of a trip that’s as BO-dacious as Lily Rose herself! “The Elephant Quilt” is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children’s Book of the Year.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Susan Lowell’s family has lived in the American West since Gold Rush days. She is the author of several picture books for children, including The Three Little Javelinas, a Reading Rainbow Book, and The Bookmaker and the Elves, winner of a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Her novels for older children are I Am Lavina Cumming and The Boy with the Paper Wings. She and her husband and their two daughters divide their time between Tucson, AZ, and a ranch near the Mexican border.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780374382230
- Publication Date
- April 1, 2008
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Original Publication Date
- April 1, 2008
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 1795
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 6 - 10 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2005051227
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 61211439
- Est. Lexile® Level
- ~530L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.5
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 121706
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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