Patricia Polacco Quotes

“The only things she had left of backhome Russia were her dress and babushka she liked to throw up into the air when she was dancing.”

“We will make a quilt to help us remember home, it will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.”

“On Friday night Anna’s mother would say the praters that started with Sabbath. The family ate challah and chicken soup. The quilt was a tablecloth.”

“When my Grandma Carle was born, Anna wrapped her daughter in the quilt to welcome her warmly into the world. ”

“Again the quilt became a wedding huppa, this time for Carle’s wedding to Grandpa George. ”

″ Carle and George moved to a farm in Michigan and Great- Gramma Anna came to live with them. The quilt once again wrapped a new little girl, Mary Ellen.”

“She had grown very old and was sick a lot of the time. The quilt kept her legs warm. ”

“When Mary Ellen left home, she took the quilt with her. When she became a bride, the quilt became her huppa.”

“The quilt welcomed me, Patricia, into the world and it was the tablecloth for my first birthday party.”

“At night, I would trace my finger around the edges of each animal on the quilt before I went to sleep. I told my mother stories about the animals on the quilt. She told me whose sleeve had made the horse, whose apron had made the chicken, whose dress had made the flowers, and whose babushka went around the edge of the quilt.”

“The quilt was a pretend cape when I was in the bullring, or sometimes a tent in the steaming Amazon jungle.

“Three year later my mother held Steven John in the quilt for the first time. ”

“Just liek their mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother before them, they, too, use the quilt to celebrate birthdays and make superhero capes. ”