Laudantium dignissimos ducimus atque sapiente.

When I saw this here on GR (or in BookPage - not sure now...) I immediately ordered it from my library. It's not often I find a book with 'Oma' and/or 'Opa' in it. Those two words are a part of Julia's every day vocabulary because this is what she calls my Mom and Dad, respectively. We read tons of books together and while we do read children's books with 'Mom-Mom', 'Pop-pop' and other various forms of the words, it still feels a bit strange to me since she's never used these words within our family. Julia has never said anything about it being weird for her but it's just different for me to read the words when I want Julia to relate. So, this got me excited. I don't know exactly what I was expecting but this wasn't it. It's not a bad book by a long shot, I just expected something a bit different. Oma's Quilt is about a little girl and her Mother who are helping the little girls Oma transition to a retirement/nursing home. The story begins in Oma's empty home with her and her Grand-daughter looking around, remembering. The story quickly goes into the family looking around the new retirement facility and the fact that Oma isn't exactly thrilled to pieces at where she is. She misses her old home on Maple St., she misses her neighbors, she misses cooking for herself, she misses much. While Oma is trying to get used to where she's currently living, Emily and her Mother are going through Oma's things to find what they want to keep and what they want to give away. At the end of the day they have one pile... the keep pile. Emily then finds a faded quilt hidden away in a box and she learns from her Mother that her Oma made the quilt - out of Opa's old shirts. This gives Emily the fantastic idea of making a new quilt for Oma - full of everything she loves from her old home. Emily and her Mother work for weeks on the quilt and finally give Oma her present. This brings me to the illustrations - Jorisch did a fabulous job on this book. The illustrations are what I