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Agatha’s Feather Bed

Agatha’s Feather Bed

Author: Carmen Agra Deedy
Illustrator: Laura L. Seeley
Genre: Fantasy and Science Fiction
Ages or Grade: 3rd to 5th grade

This is a story about Agatha who weaves clothes and owns a fabric shop. One day this little boy always ask what are her materials made of. She then tells them what they are made of and explains where each of them come from. Agatha is also well known for her long white hair and she always brushes it before she goes to bed. When she was about to go to sleep and too eager to try her mattress, flocks of naked geese came to her window. She was shocked and don’t know what to do for they are blaming her for their nakedness and no feathers because her bed is made out of their feathers. Agatha then came up with an idea by using all of her hair and started sewing clothes for the all the geese. She then made them clothes in return of her comfy bed full of their feathers.

This a good book to read for it teaches morals and patience. I will definitely have this in the classroom and I will use this for reading aloud. The illustrator really did a great job exposing the details and the character’s emotions through the pictures. The book consists of borders all around each page and are well decorated or drawn with patterns. This is a good lesson also for the students that things do come from someone or something and it just not appear out of nowhere and that there is a cost for something. It is important to count your blessings and be grateful for what you have.



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