Before Minna can go to school, she needs a winter coat. The Quilting
Mothers offer to make her a coat from scraps of quilting cloth, and
Minna carefully chooses the pieces that have the best stories behind
them. When the new coat is ready, Minna proudly wears it to school, only
to be faced with her classmates' jeers of "Rag-Coat! Rag-Coat!" But it
is Minna's coat with its stories and memories, and Minna's own
thoughtful part in its creation, that allow her to bring friendship to
Sharing Day, making her coat the warmest one of all.
Now celebrating its tenth year of publication, Lauren Mills's sensitive
and evocative story of Appalachia has been chosen time and time again as
a favorite picture book by children nationwide and continues to charm
readers of all ages.