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Circle unbroken the story of a basket and its people

by Raven Margot Theis.

Synopsis

Keeping the African heritage alive

As 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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2004
ISBN-13 9780374312893
ISBN-10 0374312893
Class Copyright
Publisher Farrar Straus and Giroux
Subject FICTION;JUVENILE FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 44
Shelf No. HF979
Ages 4 - 8
Lexile AD1050L