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