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<p><P><b>Keeping the African heritage alive</b><P>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<P><i>. . . when your fingers talk just right </i><p><i>that circle will go out and out again -</i><p><i>past slavery and freedom, old ways and new,</i><p><i>and your basket will hold the past . . .</i><P>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.</p><h3>The Washington Post</h3><p>Aside from two pages depicting the passage and sale of slaves, the book dwells less on the sadness, violence and cruelty of the black experience in America than on the joy and dignity sustained by a people against all odds. E.B. Lewis's watercolors are simply luminous. &#151; <I>Elizabeth Ward</i

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Author

Margot Theis Raven

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374312893

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, History

Rating

4.17 / 5 (117 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14