Once Upon a Quilt
Children's Quilt Book List
Updated Spring 2026
* = Out of Print º = Patterns for quilts appear in Storybook Quilts, Laura Piland (Slice of Pi Quilts)
Picture/Story Books
ABC Quilt Alphabet, Lesa Cline-Ransome (Holiday House)
Agatha’s Feather Bed, Carmen Agra Deedy (Peachtree)
Aunt Skilly and the Stranger, Kathleen Stevens (Ticknor & Fields)
Baby Days: A Quilt of Rhymes and Pictures, Belinda Downes (Candlewick)
The Bedspread, Sylvia Fair (William Morrow & Company)
Bizzy Bones and the Lost Quilt, Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Lothrop)
The Bone Talker, Shelley A. Leedahl (Red Deer Press)
The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams, Jenny Koralek (Candlewick)
The Boy and the Quilt, Shirley Kurtz (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
The Buffalo Storm, Katherine Applegate (Clarion Books)
Bringing the Farmhouse Home , Gloria Whelan (Simon & Schuster)
Cassie’s Word Quilt, Faith Ringgold (Dragonfly Books)
The Cemetery Quilt , Alice and Ross Kent (Houghton Mifflin)
Coat of Many Colours, Dolly Parton (Harper Collins)
Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet, Ann Whitford Paul
(Harper Collins)Elephant Quilt, , Susan Lowell (FSG Kids)
Elmer (various titles), David McKee (Red Fox)
Ernest & Celestine's Patchwork Quilt*, Gabrielle Vincent (Walker Books)
F is for Friendship, Helen L Wilbur (Sleeping Bear Press)
The Flying Patchwork Quilt, Barbara Brenner (Addison-Wesley)
A Far Fetched Story, Karen Cates (Greenwillow)
Grandfather’s Story Cloth, Linda Gerdner (Shens Books)
Grandmother Winter, Phyllis Root (Houghton Mifflin)
Grandpa’s Quilt, Betsy Franco (Children’s Press)
Granny's Quilt, Penny Ives (Penguin)
Jessie and the Dolphins, Tatiana Tekkel (ACC Children’s Classics)
The Katha Chest, Radhiah Chowdhury (Simon & Schuster)
Kate's Quilt*, Kay Chorao (E.P. Dutton)
The Keeping Quilt, Patricia Polacco (Simon & Schuster)
The Kindness Quilt, Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (Marshall Cavendish Corp)
The Log Cabin Quilt, Ellen Howard (Holiday House)
The Log Cabin Christmas, Ellen Howard (Holiday House)
Luka's Quilt, Georgia Guback (Greenwillow)
The Magic Quilt, Clair Thompson (Sundance)
Mama's New Job, Stan Berenstain (Random House)
Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria, Kyra E. Hicks
(Brown Books Publishing Group)Matilda Mouse's Patchwork Lifejackets*, Heather Buchanan (Methuen)
The Moon Quilt, Sunny Warner (Houghton Mifflin)
A Mountain of Quilts, Nancy Willard (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Mrs. Noah's Patchwork Quilt, Janet Bolton (Andrews and McMeel)
My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt, Janet Bolton (Doubleday)
Nancy Bess Had a Dress, Claire Noland (Gnome Road Publishing)
The Name Quilt, Phyllis Root (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
No Dragons on My Quilt, Jean Ray Laury (American Quilt Society)
Old Dame Counterpane, Jane Yolen (Philomel)
Oma’s Quilt, Paulette Bourgeois (Kids Can Press)
Papa and the Pioneer Quilt, Jean Van Leeuwen (Dial Books Young Readers)
Patchwork Cat, Nicola Bayley (Red Fox)
Patchwork Farmer, Craig Brown (Greenwillow)
A Patchwork Fish Tale*, Stewart Moskowitz (Simon & Schuster)
The Patchwork Island, Karla Kushkin (Harper Collins)
The Patchwork Lady, Mary K. Whittington (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt map to Freedom, Bettye Stroud (Candlewick)
Patchwork Quilt, Valerie Flournoy (Dial)
Patchwork Tales, Susan Roth & Ruth Phang (Atheneum)
Peter’s Patchwork Dream, Willemien Min (Barefoot Books)
Pokey Little Puppy and the Patchwork Blanket, Jean Chandler (Golden Books)
The Promise Quilt, Candice F. Ransome (Walker & Co)
The Pumpkin Blanket, Deborah Turney Zagwin (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
The Quilt, Ann Jonas (Greenwillow)
Quilt Alphabet, Lesa Cline-Ransome (Seastar Books)
Quilt Counting, Lesa Cline-Ransome (Holiday House)
A Quilt for Baby, Kim Lewis (Walker Books for Children)
A Quilt for the Birds, Phyllis Kaldenburg (CreateSpace)
Quilt of Dreams, Mindy Dwyer (Alaska Northwest Books)
A Quilt of Wishes, Theresa Oren Werner (Lifevest Publishing)
The Quilt, Valeriane Leblonde (Y Lolfa)
The Quilt Story, Tony Johnston (Putnam)
The Quiltmaker’s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau (Orchard Books)
The Quiltmakers Journey, Jeff Brumbeau (Pfeifer-Hamilton)
Quilted Elephant & the Green Velvet Dragon*, Alice Low (Simon & Schuster)
The Quilting Bee, Gail Gibbons (Harper Collins)
The Quilt That Gave a Hug, Phyllis Kaldenburg (CreateSpace)
The Rag Coat, Lauren Mills (Little Brown)
Reuben and the Quilt, P. Buckley Moss (Good Books)
Ruby, Alison Lester (Houghton Mifflin)
Sam Johnson & the Blue Ribbon Quilt, Lisa Campbell Ernst (Lothrop)
The Seasons Sewn, Ann Whitford Paul (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
The Secret to Freedom, Marcia K Vaughan (Lee and Low Books)
Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt , Barbara Smucker (Lester)
Selina and the Shoo-Fly Pie, Barbara Smucker (Stoddart Kids)
Sewing Quilts, Ann Turner (Macmillan)
Sharing Grandma’s Gift, Shelley Berlin Parrish (Peanut Butter Publishing)
Shota and the Star Quilt, Christine Fowler (Zero to Ten)
Show Way, Jacqueline Woodson (GP Putnam and Sons)
Sing in the Spring!, Sheree Fitch & Deb Plestid (Nimbus Publishing)
Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt, Pat McKissack
(Random House Books)Stitching Stars, Mary Lyons (Scribners)
Sunflower Sal, Janet S. Anderson (Albert Whitman & Company)
Sunbonnet Sue Goes to the Quilt Show, Jean Ray Laury
(The Quilt Digest Press)Sunbonnet Sue Gets It All Together At Home, Jean Ray Laury
(The Quilt Digest Press)Sunbonnet Sue Makes Her First Quilt, Jean Ray Laury (The Quilt Digest Press)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Deborah Hopkinson (Knopf)
Texas Star*, Barbara Hancock Cole (Orchard)
Tar Beach, Faith Ringold (Crown)
That Summer, Tony Johnston (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Through Moon and Night Skies, Ann Turner (Harper Collins)
The Tsunami Quilt: Grandfather’s Story, Anthony Fredericks (Sleeping Bear)
Under the Quilt of Night, Deborah Hopkinson (Atheneum)
Picture Books with Quilts in the Illustrations
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day º, Judith Viorst (Atheneum Books)
All By Myself º, Mercer Mayer (Random House)
All the Places to Love, Patricia MacLauchlin (Harper Collins)
Bear Can’t Sleep º, Karma Wilson (Simon and Schuster)
Beneath º, Cori Doerrfeld (Little Brown)
Can a Skeleton Have an X-Ray? º, Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Freemantle Press)
Cats Know Best, Colin Eisler (Dial Books)
Chicks Run Wild º, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen (Simon and Schuster)
Clifford the Small Red Puppy º, Norman Bridwell (Scholastic)
The Christmas Journey of George and Matilda Mouse, Heather Buchannan (Methuen)
Escape to Play º, Becky Gehrisch (Bookling Media)
The Floating Orchard, Troon Harrison (Tundra Books)
George and Matilda Mouse and the Doll's House , Heather Buchannan (Methuen)
Goodnight Already! º, Jory John & Benji Davies (Harper-Collins)
Hattie and the Wild Waves, Barbara Cooney (Scholastic)
Hello Lighthouse º, Sophie Blackall (Little Brown)
Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco (Bantam)
Little Witch Hazel º, Phoebe Wahl (Tundra Books)
Llama Llama Red Pajama º, Anna Dewdney (Viking Books)
Miss Rumphius º, Barbara Cooney (Penguin)
My Dog Rosie, Isabelle Harper & Barry Moser (Scholastic)
The Prince’s Bedtime º, Joanne Oppenheim (Barefoot Books)
The Night Before Christmas, Tomie dePaola (Holiday House)
Santa Claus Takes Off, Victor & Glenys Ambrus (Oxford)
Ship of Dreams, Dean Morrissey (Harry N. Abrams)
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Melodie Rosales (Scholastic)
The Underbed, Cathryn Clinton Hoellwarth (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Where’s My Kitten?, Michelle Coxon (Penguin)
Picture Books that use Quilting Techniques in the Illustrations
The Alphabet Atlas, Arthur Yorinks (Winslow Press)
Fables from Aesop, Tom Lynch (Viking)
Harry, Sidney and the Egg, Tatjana Tekkel (Bloomsbury)
Linda Lou, Meighan Morrison (Ashton Scholastic, New Zealand)
Long Live Earth, Meighan Morrison (Scholastic)
The Moon Quilt, Sunny Warner (Houghton Miflin)
Mother Earth and Her Children, Sibylle Von Olfers (Breckling Press)
Mother Earth’s ABC, Sieglinde Schoen Smith (Breckling Press)
Mrs. Noah's Patchwork Quilt, Janet Bolton (Andrews and McMeel)
My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt, Janet Bolton (Doubleday)
Pieces: A Year in Poems and Quilts, Anna Grossnickle Hines
(Greenwillow Books)Sing in the Spring!, Sheree Fitch, Deb Plestid (Nimbus Pub)
Stand for the Children, Marian Wright Edelman (Hyperion Books)
Easy Readers
The Crazy Quilt, Kristin Avery (Harper Collins)
Grandpa’s Quilt, Betsy Franco (Children’s Press)
The Josephina Story Quilt, Eleanor Coerr (Harper Collins)
Lavender, Karen Hesse (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, Riel Nason (Tundra Books)
The Little Ghost Quilt’s Winter Surprise, Riel Nason (Tundra Books)
Poppleton Has Fun, Cynthia Rylant (Scholastic)
Novels
Apricots at Midnight*, Adele Geras (Harper Collins)
Bess's Log Cabin Quilt, D. Anne Love (Holiday House)
Canada Geese Quilt, Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (Dutton)
Crazy Quilt*, Jocelyn Riley (Scholastic)
A Gathering of Days, Joan Blos (Macmillan)
Happy Birthday Kirsten, Janet Shaw (Pleasant Company)
The Homeless Bird, Gloria Whalen (Harper Collins)
Flying Geese, Barbara Haworth-Attard (Harper Collins)
The Memory Quilt, Elizabeth McKey Hulbert (Windswept House)
Nell's Quilt, Susan Terris (Scholastic)
O the Red Rose Tree, Patricia Beatty (William Morrow)
The Quilt Trilogy - A Stitch in Time (part 1), Ann Rinaldi (Scholastic)
The Quilt Trilogy - Broken Days (part 2), Ann Rinaldi (Scholastic)
The Quilt Trilogy - The Blue Door (part 3), Ann Rinaldi (Scholastic)
Recollections, Judith Baker Montano (C & T Publishing)
Compiled by Barbara Robson
PO Box 28, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada B0J 2E0
robsonbh@eastlink.ca www.barbrobson.com
