Resonating with universal experience, the story is a rich example of a supportive contemporary black family: mother, father, two children and their grandmother. When Grandma cannot work on the patchwork memory quilt into which she's been stitching colorful fabric from all family members, Tanya helps continue the creation of her beautiful family record. She even finds a new way to link the present and the past. (Ages 5-9)

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.