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A bond of love unites a family throughout generations in this companion to the beloved and bestselling classic The Keeping Quilt.
As a young Russian Jewish girl in the early 1900s, Anna and her family lived in fear of the Czar’s soldiers. The family lived a hard life and had few possessions—their treasure was a beautiful china tea set. A wedding gift to Anna’s parents, the tea set came with a wish that “Anyone who drinks from this will have blessings from God. They will never know a day of hunger. Their lives will always have flavor. They will know love and joy and they will never be poor.”
When Anna’s family leaves Russia for America, they bring the tea set and its blessings. A source of heritage and security, the tea set helps Anna’s family make friends and find better lives in America. A cup from the tea set—The Blessing Cup—became an anchor of family history, and it remains a symbol of lasting love more than a century later.
This tender tribute to the importance of loving lineage is a prequel and companion to the perennial bestseller The Keeping Quilt and is told and illustrated with authenticity and tremendous heart.
- Sales Rank: #920253 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-27
- Released on: 2013-08-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Gr 1-4–This book is a prequel to The Keeping Quilt (S & S, 1988), but readers do not need to have read the first book to enjoy it. The entrancing charcoal illustrations soften the bittersweet story and will delight young readers as they follow the brightly colored “Blessing Cup” through pages of black and white. Polacco tells an autobiographical story, tracing the origins of a special teacup from the hands of her great-grandmother in Russia to the possession of her own children today. In telling the story of the cup, the author touches on the plight of Jewish people in Russia during the early 1900s, bringing to light the terror of the pogroms as seen through the eyes of Polacco's great-grandmother as a girl. The importance of family is the underlying message of the book; it will be best delivered by an adult who can explain some of the history that drives the action. Polacco's touching yet restrained storytelling, paired with her evocative illustrations, makes The Blessing Cup an excellent addition to any collection.–Nora Clancy, Teachers College Community School, New York Cityα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
This prequel to The Keeping Quilt (1988) recounts the story of great-grandmother Anna’s childhood exodus from czarist Russia to America. The family brings along a precious tea set (“Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God”), hoping it will bring them good luck. When Papa falls ill from cold and exhaustion, a kindly doctor takes them in, nursing Papa back to health and eventually buying the whole family passage to America. In gratitude, they give him the tea set, keeping only one “blessing cup” for themselves. Polacco is a master storyteller, and this heartwarming tale of hardship and the importance of family does not disappoint. The charcoal illustrations are accented with splashes of vibrant color that allow readers to follow the tea set and Anna’s babushka along the journey. An afterword explains how the real cup broke in half during the 1989 California earthquake, enabling Polacco to pass along a part of this heirloom to both of her children. This tale stands alone, but fans will cherish this addition to the Polacco canon. Grades 1-3. --Kay Weisman
Review
THE BLESSING CUP [STARRED REVIEW!]
Polacco has a gift for turning her own family stories into picture books that can touch the hearts of all.
The Keeping Quilt is now 25 years old. In this brand-new companion, Polacco turns to her great-grandmother Anna’s story of how she came to America. The pictures, vibrant and brilliantly suggestive of movement, are mostly black-and-white, shaded with her signature use of color to highlight certain details. Devotees of The Keeping Quilt will recognize Anna’s babushka, which became the border of the quilt, on the young Anna when the czar’s soldiers come to their Russian town to burn the temple and expel all the Jews. The family packs up its most precious possessions, including her papa’s sewing machine and the beautiful china teapot and cups that were a wedding present. Even as they travel, they continue the ritual of drinking from the cups for God’s blessing, breaking bread so they will never know hunger and using salt so that their lives will have flavor. When Anna’s papa’s health breaks down from hauling the cart with all their possessions, a widowed doctor takes the family in and cares for them until, once again, they are forced to leave. In gratitude for the doctor’s care and for his supplying them with passage to America, they leave him the tea set, save for one cup. Polacco closes with the journey of that particular cup to the present day.
History, religious persecution, immigration, and the skeins of faith and love that connect a family are all knit together in this powerful, accessible and deeply affecting story. (Picture book. 6-10) (Kirkus Reviews)
In this prequel to The Keeping Quilt, readers learn how Polacco’s great-grandmother Anna and her parents were forced from their shtetl in Czarist Russia and made their way to America. Among the few treasures the family took with them was a vibrantly painted tea set, a kind of familial talisman (“This tea set is magic. Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God,” says Anna’s mother, explaining its lore), which also served as a reminder that they would always be rich in what matters: resilience and love. Only one cup from the tea set made it to their new home, but it played a central role in the family’s traditions and milestones through the generations. Polacco opens her heart to readers as few authors can, inviting them to become intimates in her family’s low and high points. As in The Keeping Quilt, she renders her unabashedly sentimental scenes of immigrant life in exuberant, fluid gray pencil, reserving the splashes and spots of color primarily for the tea set and—in a link to the earlier book—the babushka that will become part of the quilt. Ages 4–8. (Aug.) (Publishers Weekly)
POLACCO, Patricia. The Blessing Cup. illus. by author. 48p. S & S/Paula Wiseman Bks. Aug. 2013. Tr $17.99. ISBN 978-1-4424-5047-9; ebook available. LC 2012023596.
Gr 1-4–This book is a prequel to The Keeping Quilt (S & S, 1988), but readers do not need to have read the first book to enjoy it. The entrancing charcoal illustrations soften the bittersweet story and will delight young readers as they follow the brightly colored “Blessing Cup” through pages of black and white. Polacco tells an autobiographical story, tracing the origins of a special teacup from the hands of her great-grandmother in Russia to the possession of her own children today. In telling the story of the cup, the author touches on the plight of Jewish people in Russia during the early 1900s, bringing to light the terror of the pogroms as seen through the eyes of Polacco’s great-grandmother as a girl. The importance of family is the underlying message of the book; it will be best delivered by an adult who can explain some of the history that drives the action. Polacco’s touching yet restrained storytelling, paired with her evocative illustrations, makes The Blessing Cup an excellent addition to any collection.–Nora Clancy, Teachers College Community School, New York City (School Library Journal)
The Blessing Cup
by Patricia Polacco; illus. by the author
Primary Wiseman/Simon 40 pp.
8/13 978-1-4424-5047-9 $17.99
e-book ed. 978-1-4424-5048-6 $12.99
The Keeping Quilt (1988) began with Polacco’s great-grandmother Anna’s arrival in America. In this sort-of prequel, Anna and her family are forced to leave Russia during the pogroms. Though the czar’s soldiers are a dark threat from the first page, the family treasures its cozy home, community, rituals and, especially, a “magic” tea set: “Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God. They will never know a day of hunger…They will know love and joy…and they will never be poor!” And so it will be, as long as love is riches enough. Ordered to leave their village, they take little besides a few books and the precious tea set. When Papa falls ill after grueling months on the road, a widowed doctor takes the family in. “Uncle Genya” cares for Papa; Mama cooks. Then, forbidden to house Jews, Uncle Genya sells his most beautiful rug to pay their passage to America, and they leave him the tea set—save one cup, whose later history concludes the tale. The understated telling is beautifully supported and extended in art that harks back to Polacco’s early books. The illustrations are rendered in soft gray pencil. Backgrounds are roughly yet adroitly sketched, while faces and body language are particularly expressive, and panoramic views of the shtetl are lively with detail. A few strategic features draw the eye with brilliant red and blue: small accents such as the tea set and Anna’s headscarf; once, a double-page spread of the village temple in flames. This is family history at its dramatic and iconic best, a well-shaped story and a fine addition to Polacco’s oeuvre. joanna rudge long (The Horn Book)
From the Article: Family Stories
“Like ‘This Is the Rope,” Patricia Polacco’s book ‘The Blessing Cup’ centers on an item, in this case a cup that links the author to her Russian-Jewish family’s turbulent past. A companion book to ‘The Keeping Quilt’, reprinted this month in a 25th anniversary edition, the story brings to life Polacco’s great-grandmother Anna’s childhood in a shtetl in Russia, beginning ominously as she hides with her mother and sister in an animal shed during a pogrom. Later, Anna’s mother takes down ‘a magnificent china tea set’ – along with Anna’s bright red babushka, one of the few colored objects in Polacco’s detailed pencil drawings – so that the family can celebrate the Sabbath. When the synagogue is burned down and all the Jews in the village are ordered to leave, the set – a wedding present from an aunt in Minsk that came with its own special blessings – is preciously packed for the difficult journey to America. After a welcome respite at the house of a kind doctor the family make their way out of Russia, and by the time they arrive in New York Harbor, only a cup remains, a vivid reminder of ‘the bread, salt, love and richness of being together'...When the original cup breaks in two, Polacco, now its custodian, decides to give one piece each to her two children, reminding us – as do all these books in their own ways – that no matter how fragmented, family history needs to be cherished and passed along in order to survive across the years.”
--Valerie Steiker, NYTBR (New York Times Book Review)
This prequel to
The Keeping Quilt (1988) recounts the story of great-grandmother Anna’s childhood
exodus from czarist Russia to America. The family brings along a precious tea set (“Anyone who drinks
from it has a blessing from God”), hoping it will bring them good luck. When Papa falls ill from cold and
exhaustion, a kindly doctor takes them in, nursing Papa back to health and eventually buying the whole
family passage to America. In gratitude, they give him the tea set, keeping only one “blessing cup” for
themselves. Polacco is a master storyteller, and this heartwarming tale of hardship and the importance of
family does not disappoint. The charcoal illustrations are accented with splashes of vibrant color that allow
readers to follow the tea set and Anna’s babushka along the journey. An afterword explains how the real
cup broke in half during the 1989 California earthquake, enabling Polacco to pass along a part of this
heirloom to both of her children. This tale stands alone, but fans will cherish this addition to the Polacco
canon.
(Booklist)
This companion story to The Keeping Quilt recounts the details of how young
Anna (Polacco’s great-grandmother as a child) and her family are driven from their
home in Czarist Russia. A kind doctor comes to their aid, offering them food,
shelter, and warmth, and he proves their savior once again when, upon receiving
notification from authorities that he cannot house Jews, he purchases tickets for the
entire family to travel to America. As a token of gratitude, they leave the family’s
treasured tea set, save for one cup that remains with the family and is passed down
through the generations (eventually landing with Polacco herself ). Polacco has a
particular flair for turning family stories into universal tales, and the tea set serves
as an effective framing device for describing the family’s journey. The story is suffused
with warmth, and while many of the events described are tragic, there is an
air of familial joy (if also occasional sentimentality) that supersedes the sadness. The
pencil and marker illustrations are largely monochromatic, with selective splashes
of color incorporated into each spread; readers of the earlier story will recognize
Anna’s brightly hued babushka, and the tea set itself is elaborately patterned in blue,
red, and green. This is an accessible tale of the way one family’s faith and devotion
carried them through the most difficult of times, and it will appeal on many levels
to young readers. HM (Bulletin)
The Blessing Cup
Patricia Polacco
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
48 Pages $17.99
ISBN: 978-1-4424-5047-9
Review by Sharon Elswit
Fifteen years ago, The Keeping Quilt won the Sydney Taylor Award for Young Readers. There Polacco shared a story of loving family traditions. It interwove her great-grandmother Anna’s long life after she arrived in America with a quilt created, transformed, and cherished through the generations. That picture book is a staple in second and third grade immigrant studies. Here, in a prequel which moves through to the present, Polacco centers the story of hardships Anna’s family faced in Russia on a china tea set which plays a role in their journey to the new land. The handle-less cups and tall, graceful teapot come with a note celebrating Anna’s mother’s wedding: “This tea set is magic. Anyone who drinks from it has a blessing from God. They will never know a day of hunger. Their lives will always have flavor. They will know love and joy…and they will never be poor.”
This companion volume contains more action than The Keeping Quilt. The blessing of the tea set is tested by Cossack attacks, by the Czar’s edict which forces the Jews of Roynovka from their homes, and by Papa’s collapse from pneumonia as he pulls their cart on the road. The compassionate doctor who takes them in becomes a heart-warming hero in the tea set story. He also notices Anna’s nearsightedness and fits her with a pair of new eyeglasses. Throughout all the harshness the family faces, the red and blue patterned tea set and young Anna’s head scarf stand out in sepia drawn double-page spreads and provide comfort to the family and reader alike. Polacco’s text is suffused with warmth and quotable lyricism. It also provides age-appropriate depictions of life for Jews under the czar in the early 1900s. This picture book, which reminds us of the ties that bind us, is recommended for children 7-10. (Jewish Book Council)
Most helpful customer reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Polacco Shines Again!
By Jerry Flack
Patricia Polacco may not have won any of the "Nobel" prizes in the field of children's literature, but her books always matter and they touch the heart. She is on a one-person crusade to help children appreciate their heritage and to be loving, tolerant, and kind to everyone. She succeeds 100 percent.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A Beautiful Book
By TK
This is a beautifully illustrated and written book. I would recommend it as a picture book for mature children and adults too. I have a 5 year old granddaughter but I think she will appreciated it in a couple more years. It is a good story about life struggles, family, and traditions.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Buy It Now
By QuiltLover
Patricia Polacco continues to write from her heart. I love her artistry and this book is a great addition to my collection of her books. It is a companion to The Keeping Quilt.
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