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Oma’s Quilt

By Sarah Rosenfeld

A review of Oma's Quilt by Paulette Bourgeois

Published on October 1, 2001

Oma’s Quilt
Paulette Bourgeois

Kids Can Press
$15.95
hardcover

Oma’s Quilt (Kids Can Press, $15.95, hardcover, ages 5 to 8), by Paulette Bourgeois and illustrated by two-time Governor General award-winner Stéphane Jorisch, is beautiful. Jorisch’s bright watercolours show the quilt that conquers Oma’s unhappiness after her move to a retirement home mRb

Sarah Rosenfeld is a writer and associate editor for a travel and leisure magazine for Canadian physicians.

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