Our Author Quilt Makes the Local Newspaper

It was a wonderful week. I shared the quilt with our fifth graders who did the project as fourth graders. Hoping to get the quilt hung this week.

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Staff Photo: Jason Braverman Sydney Watkins, a fifth-grade student at Mulberry Elementary, helps fold a quilt that was made with autographs of famous authors. Mulberry Author Quilt Last year, fourth-grade students wrote to 42 children's authors asking them to sign fabric squares that would be sewn into a quilt. Below are the authors whose autographs appear on the decorative blanket. • Judy Blume ("Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing") • Betsy Byars ("The Summer of the Swans") • Dale Christopher, on behalf of his late father Matt Christopher ("The Kid Who Only Hit Homers") • Beverly Cleary ("Beezus and Ramona") • Christopher Paul Curtis ("Bud, Not Buddy") • Kate DiCamillo ("Because of Winn-Dixie") • Tony DiTerlizzi ("The Spiderwick Chronicles") • Russell Freedman ("Lincoln: A Photobiography") • Dan Gutman ("Jackie & Me") • Nancy Krulik ("Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo") • Lois Lowry ("Number the Stars") • Ann M. Martin ("The Baby-sitters Club") • Christopher Paolini ("Eragon") • Barbara Park ("Junie B. Jones") • Dav Pilkey ("The Adventures of Captain Underpants") • Patricia Polacco ("Thank You, Mr. Falker") • Barbara Robinson ("The Best Christmas Pageant Ever") • Louis Sachar ("Holes") • Roland Smith ("Peak") • Jerry Spinelli ("Maniac Magee") • R.L. Stine ("Goosebumps") • Mo Willems ("Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale") • Henry Winkler ("Hank Zipzer")