The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau

This is anti-materialist propaganda!!! I'm just joking, this was a nice little story about a greedy king who demands more and more presents from everyone in his kingdom, but no matter how many presents he has, he's never happy, hence the constant demand for more. Then one day he sees a quilt this quilt maker gave someone as a present and the person seems pretty happy so he demands that the quilt maker make him a quilt. The quilt maker refuses to do this however and says that she'll only make the king a quilt when he gives his stuff away, then he'll be able to be happy. So the king tries this out. He gives one of his presents to someone and it makes him feel kind of good inside, so he does it again and again. Years later the king is practically poor, but he's smiling a lot and the quilt maker gives the king a quilt. he says he doesn't need the quilt, but the quilt maker gives it to him anyways. The pictures are colourful and expressive and there's a nice moral to the story.