My forays into quilting and other crafts



Page last updated 08/28/05

Quilting and Craft Books, etc.

Some favorite quilting and craft books, etc., available via Amazon.com and other resellers

Unless otherwise noted, item is a hardcover or paperback book.

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(I have an Amazon Associateship through our dog Lucy's web pages; go there for dog-related book suggestions)




Nonfiction - attention to detail in remarkable tools; inspirations for quilting; history of quilts/fabrics... I own and/or have given all but one of these as gifts:

Idea/how-to books that I have or have given people which were not available through Amazon.com as of 5/20/05:




Amazon's suggested books on scrap quilts, quilting inspirations, ...
(computer-generated lists; may overlap with my favorites above)




Children's quilt- or crafting-related fiction that we've read and enjoyed, plus others by those authors
(or other authors' writings about those books):




Children's quilt- or crafting-related fiction suggested by Amazon:
(may overlap with our selections above)

See more of Amazon's quilt-related juvenile fiction here: kids' fiction: quilts




Other children's books we love (arranged by approximate target age):


All of these have wonderful illustrations in addition to a story that we enjoy hearing over and over again.

  • cover of book Counting Kisses : A Kiss & Read Book, by Karen Katz.
    Board book for even the tiniest ones, but can be appreciated by most younger kids. The whole family counts from ten kisses down to one as they put the baby to bed with kisses on named body parts. Sweet and gentle, but not saccharine. Our children have stopped tantrums to have this book read to them.
  • Angelina Ballerina's Colors, by Katharine Holabird, illustrated by Helen Craig.
    Board book for wee ones. Pictures from various Angelina books are used as examples of colors. Our little one dances around, chanting "Ballerina colors, ballerina colors!"
    Other Angelina Ballerina items - books, videos, DVDs, games, puzzles
  • Pickle and the Ball, by Lynn Breeze.
    Board book for wee ones. A baby, Pickle, plays with his ball, accidentally squishing his teddy with it at one point. Out of print.
  • Pickle and the Blanket, by Lynn Breeze.
    Board book for wee ones. A baby, Pickle, plays with his blanket. Out of print.
    Lynn Breeze wrote two other Pickle books, but we didn't like them nearly as much as these two.
  • cover of book Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann.
    Board book for wee ones to preschoolers. Almost no words, so smallest listeners will need some explanation. It's bedtime at the zoo, but the silly gorilla sneaks the key ring and lets the other animals out. They all follow zookeeper Joe home and try to go to sleep in his bedroom, but are caught. The zookeeper's wife returns them to the zoo for the night. Lots of nice details like the Ernie doll and the banana.
  • cover of book Can You Hop?, by Lisa Lawston, illustrated by Ed Vere.
    Board book for wee ones. A frog tries to find an animal friend who can also hop.
  • cover picCircle Dogs, by Kevin Henkes; illustrated by Dan Yaccarino.
    A cute, silly bedtime story about a family with two parents, two children, and two Dachshunds. The dogs eat and play, and then they sleep-sleep-sleep. For babies and young children.
  • Grover's New Kitten, by Sesame Street, photographed by John E. Barrett.
    Board book for wee ones to preschoolers. Grover adopts a kitten. Out of print.
  • Where Is Baby Natasha?, by Liza Alexander, illustrated by Maggie Swanson.
    Board book for wee ones to preschoolers. Muppet Natasha gets into mischief on each page. Try to find her. Rhyming story ends with Natasha cuddling on mama's lap for a nap.
  • cover of book Bumble Bee, by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Victoria Raymond.
    Board book for wee ones to preschoolers. Soothing, rhythmic lines follow a bumblebee around as it flies. Very interesting pictures - bee and settings were made from modeling clay, beads, and other materials and then photographed.
  • cover of book One Beautiful Baby, by Martine Oborne.
    Wee ones to preschoolers. Very sweet counting book that shows things to love about a cute, sticky, typical baby.
  • cover of book Jamberry, by Bruce Degen.
    Board book for wee ones to about kindergarten. A boy goes out for a walk, meets up with a bear, and the two have adventures in the countryside. They feast on different types of berries and meet numerous singing, dancing, jazz-playing, berry-eating animals along the way. Very silly rhymes, but not at all cutesy.
  • cover of book Down by the Station, by Will Hillenbrand.
    "Down by the station, early in the morning..." song in book form. Illustrations show a train engineer picking up baby animal passengers and taking them to the children's zoo just in time for a busload of schoolchildren to play with them.
  • cover of book Big Red Barn and
    Big Red Barn (El gran granero rojo) en espanol, by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond.
    Board book for wee ones to kindergarten. The barnyard animals play and settle down for the night while "the children are away." Wonderful, soothing rhymes make it a great bedtime story.
  • cover of book Little Nino's Pizzeria, by Karen Barbour.
    Little Tony helps his mom and dad (the Nino of the title) run the family pizzeria, which is a friendly gathering place that caters to everyone in their neighborhood. Families eat there; pizza is regularly given away to the needy. One day, a wealthy customer convinces the father open a higher-end pizza restaurant. Nino isn't allowed to help there; the father is overworked and overwhelmed by the bureaucracy; it's too ritzy a place for the locals. The family is upset all around. Happily, dad decides to return to the simplicity and direct control of his old pizzeria business. He now calls it "Little Tony's". Book's text is much simpler than this explanation. Colorful illustrations show a mostly-happy family with pet(s). Paperback.

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