Technical specs
Original title: A manta — uma história aos quadradinhos (de tecido)
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145222 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: May 2010
8th reprint: May 2025
© Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French
The quilt
(Portuguese edition)
In comic books, each square tells a little piece of the story.
In this book, which is not a comic book, nor anything of the sort, each square (of cloth) also has a story to tell.
There’s a patchwork quilt, a grandmother with a very good memory and lots of grandchildren eager to hear her stories. At night, before going to bed, this grandmother doesn’t need books. All she needs is to look at the quilt, at the different characters and their adventures, and there the story begins…
Technical specs
Original title: A manta — uma história aos quadradinhos (de tecido)
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145222 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: May 2010
8th reprint: May 2025
© Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French
Awards and recognitions
Selected — White Ravens Catalog (2012)
Recommended — Gulbenkian/Casa da Leitura
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading List
What they say
The Quilt is a picturebook about memory and the affective value it carries. Sewn-together scraps of family life are told by Grandma, the matriarch. Beyond the tender celebration of intergenerational storytelling, however, this patchwork narrative’s great triumph lies in the way it deals with the death of a grandmother and with nostalgia. (…) Yara Kono illustrates the narrated episodes with an artisanal simplicity, constructing, page after page, a pattern that will fill the memories and keepers of this book.
Andreia Brites, Os Meus Livros magazine, June 2010
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