00942    a2200181   4500001000700000020001800007020001100025041000800036082000800044100002400052520042400076856002400500040002500524245010600549260004600655300003000701700002900731118327  a9780312376031  qbroch.  aeng  a[E]  aRaven, Margot Theis  aAs 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.  u00002f/00002fe1.jpg  aBR-BrIDEAcBR-BrIDEA10aCircle unbrokenbthe story of a basket and its peoplecMargot Theis Raven ; Pictures by E. B. Lewis .  aNew YorkbFarrar, Straus and Girouxc2004  a1 v. (unpaged)bcol. ill.  aLewis, E.B.eillustrator