The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau cousins One warm summer night

One warm summer night

Wee petal is the perfect pal

'The lustrous illustrations do a great job of capturing the majesty and awesomeness of their subjects

they prepare the seeds

It's been 20 years since world-renowned folklorist Iona Opie and beloved illustrator Rosemary Wells (who Opie firmly believes is Mother Goose's second cousin) published the ultimate--and award-winning--nursery rhyme collection My Very First Mother Goose

The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau cousins One warm summer nightIn this enchantingly told original folktale, a wise quiltmaker makes the most beautiful quilts in the world but she will give them only to those who have nothing. When a rich, dissatisfied king insists that she give him one of her quilts, she gives him what seems an impossible task: to give away all he owns. One by one, the king gives away his many possessions, and finds that the more he gives away, the happier he is. Finally, when the king has