Quilting for Fun!

by Dana Meachen Rau, Brenda Haugen (Editor)

Learn how to play your favorite sport or participate in your favorite activity in this exciting series from Compass Point Books. Each book in the For Fun series features bold, full-color photos, informative text, and all sorts of fun facts about your favorite pastime. A quick reference guide, timeline of important events, instructions on basic skills, biographies of notable people, glossary, and index are included.

48 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

Dana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Andrea Boyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really fun book. Since reading this book my 9 year old son has actually pulled out my sewing machine and began making his own quilt. This book is very thorough and I enjoyed learning about the history of quilt making, and the time line that went with that. The photographs are large and in color and go along very well with what is written. There is a table of contents, quilting words to know, a glossary with other words to know, where to learn more and an index. There is also an about the author where we find out that not only has the author written more than 200 books but she is also a quilter herself. This is a great book to introduce the idea of quilting to children. While it may prove difficult to do any quilting in a classroom there is still a lot of information that can be used to introduce concepts about teamwork and working together for a common good. The book includes information about quilting quilds, women who come together and each have their own specialty in quilt making. When they work together they accomplish much more, and faster than if they were working on their own. This principle could be used in so many aspects of life.

[Amber · Rating 2 out of 5]

some cute ideas!

[Ruth Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book gave me the info I was looking for.