This is a touching book about a family in Michigan in the late 1800s. The mother has just died, so the dad decided to pack up everything and move. He's deeply hurt by the death, and the family is shaken. They build a log cabin in a wilderness area, and one day the father has to go out hunting. During the cold night the children decide to stop cold air coming in with their grandma's quilting pieces. When the father comes back he declares that "mama would be proud" and this breaks the spell of sadness that has haunted the family. They felt like a whole family again because their father could now speak about the mother. They called it "the log cabin quilt." I thought it was a great book, and the illustrations fit the story very well. I would have this in my classroom as a book to foster discussion about families and dealing with sadness. It would be best used as a read aloud for younger children, and for older children it wouldn't be a particularly difficult read.
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