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Raven,
Margot Theis.
CIRCLE UNBROKEN : THE STORY
OF THE SWEETGRASS BASKET
New York : Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 2003.
IL K-3
ISBN 0374312893
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"Now,
you've asked me, child, how I come to sew/ Well put youself in Grandma's
arms/and listen to a circle tale/from long, long ago..." As Grandmother
weaves her basket, she also weaves the tale of her people. The tale
begins in Africa and tells the story of the importance of sweetgrass baskets
to the people of the Sea Islands.
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SUBJECTS:
Sweetgrass baskets -- Fiction.
Baskets -- Fiction.
Gullahs -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Sea Islands -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction. |
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