Monday Reading - More to Love

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          I'm taking a couple of weeks off after this week to enjoy my family and the holidays. Whatever part of this season of light you celebrate, I wish you peace and kindness along the way. This first book includes numerous holidays that celebrate light during this winter time. I hope you can find and enjoy its beauty.

          Anna Grossnickle Hines not only wrote the poems and illustrated them but created the quilts that became part of the beautiful pages. In the backmatter, she writes about the importance of light in the deep winter months, including the holidays that are celebrated with some kind of light and ending with the light we all share, the moon. And she gives detailed instructions for creating the quilts. The quilts are exceptionally gorgeous, glowing brightly in a sea of dark, just like the candles of Chanukah and Kwanza, or the lights on the Christmas tree. There are poems for each special time and they glow too, like the one about farolitos, lines of paper bag lanterns symbolically lighting the way for Mary and Joseph. The book will delight everyone in this season where light is needed and celebrated and might inspire quilters too.