The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt - Gift Edition

By: Nason, Riel

When you're a quilt instead of a sheet, being a ghost is hard A contemporary picture book classic, now available in a stunning special gilded edition -- a perfect gift for the little ghost lovers in your life.

Ghosts are supposed to be sheets, light as air and able to whirl and twirl and float and soar. But the little ghost who is a quilt can't whirl or twirl at all, and when he flies, he gets very hot.

He doesn't know why he's a quilt. His parents are both sheets, and so are all of his friends. (His great-grandmother was a lace curtain, but that doesn't really help cheer him up.) He feels sad and left out when his friends are zooming around and he can't keep up.

But one Halloween, everything changes. The little ghost who was a quilt has an experience that no other ghost could have, an experience that only happens because he's a quilt . . . and he realizes that it's OK to be different.

This special gift edition is unjacketed, with a newly designed cloth-like spine, a foil-stamped cover and beautiful gilded edges.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1774887185
• ISBN13: 9781774887189
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

If I were a child instead of 70 years old, I'd give it 5 stars.

The Ghost Who Was a Quilt is a charming picture book about a world where ghosts are usually sheets with holes for eyes and mouth. This poor ghost is a genuine quilt with layers that weigh and slow him down. Apparently, this sort of thing happens in his family. One ancestor was a checkered tablecloth (odd looking, but at least no heavier than a sheet). One of his great-grandmothers was a lace curtain -- lovely, but I have to wonder if all those tiny openings made flying difficult. The little ghost makes a mistake in the park that ends in his humiliation, not that anyone intended that. He really hates being different. Then it's Halloween, a day the little ghost loves. He and his friends enjoy watching the humans dress up as ghosts and other things. The little ghost can't hover, so he usually hides in plain sight to watch. This year his plan doesn't work, but it leads to a very special experience. I think that any child who is different could identify with the little ghost. This is a happy book in the end and I enjoyed it. I'm glad I won it through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program and glad I won the sequel. Mine is the special gift edition of 2025, so I don't know if the regular edition includes end papers that look as if they were made of quilt squares. The cobwebbed-covered old house is the kind of big, old-fashioned place I love. There are plenty of details to look for, such as the cup on the attic floor that is catching drips from a leak in the roof. An owl has made its home behind the face of their grandfather clock. In the park scene, the family dachshund is staring hungrily at the little boy's ice cream cone. In the double-page spread of the little ghost going home from the park, not only are his friends laughing, but three crows are cawing, probably mockingly. There are portraits of the odd ghost ancestors, a saucepan catching another leak by the piano. The piano is broken, cracks in the wall, and vines growing in from the window by the piano. I love the bored expression of the cat lying on the wall in front of the clothesline where the little ghost has folded himself over. It obviously couldn't care less it's that close to a ghost. My favorite decorations of the house where the little ghost flopped over the porch rail are the bats hanging from the porch roof. The little ghost clutching at the plastic skeletal hand and arm lawn decoration as the mother is carrying him away is cute. The background objects are mostly in grays, blacks, and tans. There are touches of orange as well as the blues of the ghost quilt. The little girl's ballerina costume is pink. It's just right for a ghost story.