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.
| ISBN: | 9780312376031 |
| Publication date: | 26th December 2007 |
| Author: | Margot Theis Raven |
| Illustrator: | E B Lewis |
| Publisher: | Square Fish |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 48 pages |