Description
As she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her grandfather's village in faraway Africa. There, as a boy, he learned to make baskets so tightly woven they could hold the rain. Even after being stolen away to a slave ship bound for America, he remembers what he learned and passes these memories on to his children - as they do theirs.
Author: Margot Theis Raven
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.98h x 9.48w x 0.14d
ISBN13: 9780312376031
ISBN10: 0312376030
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Africa
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Values & Virtues
About the Author
Margot Raven and E. B. Lewis collaborated on Circle Unbroken, a Booklist Top 10 Black History Book for Youth. Their most recent picture book was Night Boat to Freedom, published by FSG in 2006. The author lives in Charleston, South Carolina. The artist, a Caldecott Honor Medalist for Coming on Home Soon, lives in Folsom, New Jersey.