She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt

by Jennifer Harris

At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond--to space.

In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807573221
• ISBN13: 9780807573228
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3