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Overview
In this 32-page lap book we join Cassie, the main character from the picture book Tar Beach. As she takes us on a tour of her home, neighborhood, and school, dozens of new words are introduced with simple labels throughout. Young readers will love the simple story line and all the new words they'll encounter. They'll relish the beautifully designed spreads, each with its own quilt motif. The bright, boldly colored pages will attract even the youngest lookers, and the words will teach pre-reading skills to slightly older children. The size makes it perfect for story hours, and the price makes it perfect for every home.Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem in 1930. She received a degree in art education from the City College of New York and was an art teacher long before she became a professional artist. She is best known for her "painted story quilts," some of which hang in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Tar Beach, Ringgold's first book for children, won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration and was named a Caldecott Honor Book. Ringgold is now a professor of art at the University of California at San Diego. She lives in California and in New Jersey.
Names the people and objects that make a girl's New York City apartment, school, and neighborhood special.
Synopsis
In this 32-page lap book we join Cassie, the main character from the picture book Tar Beach. As she takes us on a tour of her home, neighborhood, and school, dozens of new words are introduced with simple labels throughout. Young readers will love the simple story line and all the new words they’ll encounter. They’ll relish the beautifully designed spreads, each with its own quilt motif. The bright, boldly colored pages will attract even the youngest lookers, and the words will teach pre-reading skills to slightly older children. The size makes it perfect for story hours, and the price makes it perfect for every home.
Publishers Weekly
The heroine takes readers on a tour of her home, neighborhood and school, featuring Ringgold's signature quilting. Ages 3-6. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
The heroine takes readers on a tour of her home, neighborhood and school, featuring Ringgold's signature quilting. Ages 3-6. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.Children's Literature
Cassie of Tar Beach is back. Cassie's Word Quilt is "dedicated to all the children who are learning to use words and pictures to tell their story." Each page features Cassie in the middle of a bright quilt square surrounded by an elaborate border of detailed fabric. On the opposite page are words and pictures from the different parts of Cassie's life—family members at home; the quilt on the rooftop; mirror, lamp and fish inside the apartment; blanket, closet and book bag in her bedroom; swing, fruit stand, policeman and subway outside. Ringgold's trademark illustrations with their brilliantly painted colors and bold shapes fill each page with familiar home and city scenes. At the beginning and the end, all the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet are quilted onto a double-page spread. The book is perfect for expanding the reading or speaking vocabulary of young children while providing lots of opportunities for discussion and finding details in the larger pictures. The straightforward simplicity mixed with interesting detail is a model for older children to create stories about their own lives and homes in words and pictures. 2002, Dell Dragonfly, Ages 3 to 7.—Karen Leggett