the story of a basket and its people Raven, Margot Theis creator Lewis, E.B. illustrator New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 eng 1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 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. Margot Theis Raven ; Pictures by E. B. Lewis . [E] 9780312376031 00002f/00002fe1.jpg 00002f/00002fe1.jpg BR-BrIDEA 118327