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The text is wonderfully written and offers a feeling of beauty, love, and anticipation. . . . the artwork is outstanding. —School Library Journal Visually inventive. . . . reassuring verse builds with welcoming anticipation . . . while illustrations reveal the purpose of the adult’s handiwork: a cozy quilt to be shared by caregiver and new arrival. It’s a warmth-filled portrait that binds the loving act of making a quilt to one experience of growing a family. —Publishers Weekly

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Deirdre Sullivan is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply, Perfectly Preventable Deaths, and Tangleweed and Brine. Little Passenger is her first picture book. The recipient of the Children’s Book Ireland Book of the Year award and the An Post Irish Book Award, Deirdre Sullivan lives in Dublin. Jessica Love is an actor and the author-illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, her debut picture book, which received the Stonewall Book Award, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and the Klaus Flugge Prize, as well as Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She has a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard, and has appeared in plays both on and off Broadway. Jessica Love lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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