Mrs.
Kirby enjoys visiting schools, libraries, book stores, and quilt shows
to give book talks and to sign books. When she gives a talk, she brings
along a trunk. From the trunk, she pulls quilts used in her books as well
as traditional prairie clothing. Sometimes she has a quilt on the floor
and invites readers to sit near her to help make the atmosphere cozy. When
children are present, she has some of them dress up in the costumes so
they can get a feel for the clothing children wore at the time of the books.
During her talk, Mrs. Kirby gives an interesting synopsis of each of the
books in the series.
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Mrs.
Kirby wants her listeners to understand what life was like on the prairie,
so she has created a picture quilt to use as a cue card. All of the
pictures on the quilt help her to remember what she wants to discuss during
a book talk. For example, the Indians sometimes called prairie fire,
red buffalo, because a prairie fire could move and change direction as
quickly as buffalo. The white deer and the snow are to remind her
to discuss the hard winter of 1830-31 when the snow drifted to 20 feet.
Herds of deer froze to death making meat scarce. Crops were not successful
either because there was a frost every month that year. The picture
quilt also provides cues for Mrs. Kirby to talk about the Indian, Black
Hawk and the prairie as well as other interesting historical facts.
Mrs. Kirby will have to visit for you to learn more about this fun quilt.
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Printable Forms Related to School Visits
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