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Activities with Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Activities by Nancy Polette © 2002

THE PATCHWORK QUILT
by Valerie Floumey. Illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Dial, 1985.
1986 Winner

Tanya's Grandma liked to sit in her favorite chair by the window where the light shone in. She needed good light to work on her patchwork quilt, made from bits and pieces of her children's and grandchildren's lives

ACTIVITY:

Scraps are just scraps until they ae sewn together and then they become a quilt.
A shirt is just a shirt until...
A potato is just a potato until...
A tree is just tree until...
A nail is just a nail until...
What others can you add?