For my multicultural book I selected The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. Polacco tells a story about her family. Her great- gramma made a quilt out of a quilt out of the family clothes and passed it down from generation to generation. Along the way Patricia uses the quilt to help explain the Russian culture of birth, wedding and death. The book is also accompanied by beautiful black and white pictures which show the different dress throughout the times. How the women went from wearing babushkas to more modern hair styles and modern clothing the same with the men. The only color in the book is the color that accentuates the pages from the quilt or the clothing that it was made out of. The pictures are historically accurate and do not
