Circle Unbroken (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0374312893
ISBN 13
9780374312893
Category
Literature
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
48
Description
Keeping the African heritage aliveAs she teaches her granddaughter to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, a grandmother weaves a story, going back generations to her old-timey 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, so that. . . when your fingers talk just right that circle will go out and out again -past slavery and freedom, old ways and new,and your basket will hold the past . . .This powerful picture book, with its rhythmic text and evocative paintings, spirals through time, becoming a triumphant song - a rich story of a craft, a culture, and a people. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1