I really enjoyed this story by Jacqueline Woodson. The story was about her and her ancestors lives. When I started reading the book, I thought that the book was going to be all about the character Soonie. Soonie's great grandmother was a slave and was sold as a young child. Each character in the book knew how to make quilt squares. These squares helped guide people along the path to freedom. The story keeps going down the line to eventually you find out that all these people are the ancestors of Jacqueline Woodson and she even tells about her daughter.
I think this book is very inspiring. I think it would be so hard to be a young child and be sold or taken away from your parents and family. During this time they really had no way of taking items that would even remind them of their family. This was an amazing book and it was very well written.
This would be an awesome book to use in the upper elementary grades. It would be great to use when studying slavery or to be read during black history month. Jacqueline Woodson does an excellent job telling this awesome story of her ancestors struggle as slaves and eventually achieving their freedom. I also think that Hudson Talbott did an amazing job with the illustrations. This is one of the first multi cultural books that I have ever read and I really enjoyed it.
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