I am looking for a picture book that was one of my favorites when I was five or six, so that would put it around 1968/1969, or possibly older if it wasn’t newly published. I remember borrowing this from my public library in NJ and my mother reading it to me. I’ve searched your Stumper results and haven’t found the one I was looking for. What I remember: a little boy leaves his room each night and flies through the air on his quilt. I think he flies all around his town, maybe has a few adventures. I think it was a patchwork quilt, and maybe at the end he comes back and takes his little sister out with him. Almost all of my other Stumpers have been solved, and this is one of the last beloved book memories I am trying to solve. Thanks for your help!
Maybe “The Patchwork Quilt” by Joan Aiken? It can be found in her story collection, A Necklace of Raindrops. I don’t know if it was ever published separately, though.
I think I found this book not too long ago, but I can’t recall the name. I’ll try to find it again, but in the meantime, here is a long shot (which, I think is better than nothing):
The Flying Patchwork Quilt, by Barbara Brenner.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15722110-the-flying-patchwork-quilt
Thank you for your answers. I’m not sure it’s The Flying Patchwork Quilt by Barbara Brenner. I coudn’t find a site where I could look at the inside pages of the book. I may have to buy a copy just to be sure!
As for Joan Aiken, I’m definitely a fan and I may even have read that story collection, but the book I was looking for was definitely a picture book or a “Beginner Reader.”
Thank you again for your suggestions.