{"id":2676,"date":"2008-11-05T02:51:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tapestrycenter.org\/?page_id=2676"},"modified":"2011-02-27T01:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T20:17:58","slug":"childrens-books-about-weaving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tapestrycenter.org\/?page_id=2676","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Books About Weaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please contribute your suggestions for this list, which is continuously updated. We are grateful to Jacqueline Butler-Diaz, research consultant, for her additions to this bibliography.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alderson, Sue Ann<br \/>\n1988 <em>Ida and the Wool Smugglers. <\/em>Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York.<br \/>\nAlthough her family thinks she is not big enough to participate in the annual sheep run, Ida proves she is big enough to outwit the smugglers trying to steal her favorite sheep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Arcellana, Francisco1999 <em>The Mats. <\/em>Kane\/Miller Books, Brooklyn, NY.<br \/>\nMarcelina\u2019s father comes home from a trip to Manila in the Philippines with beautiful hand-made sleeping mats for each member of the family, including three daughters who died when they were very young.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Baskwill, Jane, and Trish Hill\u00a0 1996 <em>Somewhere.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Beskow, Elsa<br \/>\n1989 <em>Pelle&#8217;s New Suit. <\/em><br \/>\nPelle has a lamb whose coat grows longer and longer, while Pelle\u2019s Sunday suit grows shorter! Pelle shears the lamb, and the wool is carded, spun, dyed and woven. Finally, the tailor makes a new suit for Pelle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blood, Charles L., and Martin Link, recorders<br \/>\n1976 <em>Geraldine, The Goat in the Rug. <\/em>Parents\u2019 Magazine Press, New York.<br \/>\nGeraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug from shearing and carding to dyeing and actual weaving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bodkin, Odds, and Gennady Spirin<br \/>\n<em>Crane Wife.<\/em><br \/>\nA retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful, but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Browne, Vee, and Baje Whitethorne<br \/>\n1991 <em>Monster Slayer: A Navajo Folktale. <\/em>Northland, Flagstaff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bulion, Leslie, and Nicole Tadgell<br \/>\n<em>Fatuma&#8217;s New Cloth.<\/em><br \/>\nFatuma is excited about helping Mama with the marketing in her East African village because she has been promised a kanga cloth of her own. Each kanga pattern contains a Swahili saying, and Fatuma&#8217;s choice reads, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be fooled by the color. The good flavor of chai comes from the sugar.\u201d Mama explains that what makes a person special is not always evident to the eye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Caduto, Michael J., and Joseph Bruchac<br \/>\n1994 <em>Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children. <\/em>Fulcrum, Golden, CO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Castaneda, Omar, and E. Sanchez<br \/>\n<em>Abuela&#8217;s Weave.<\/em><br \/>\nA young Guatemala girl and her grandmother grow closer as they weave some special creations and make a trip to the market in hope of selling them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cha\/Chue, Dia, and Nhia Thao Cha<br \/>\n<em>Dia&#8217;s Story Coth: The Hmong People&#8217;s Journey of Freedom.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chan, Anthony<br \/>\n<em>Hmong Textile Designs.<\/em><br \/>\nThe joyous designs of pa&#8217;ndau, the flower cloth textiles of the Hmong people, are sampled in this book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chanin, Michael, and Kim Howard<br \/>\n1997 <em>The Chief\u2019s Blanket. <\/em>H J Kramer, Starseed Press, Tiburon, CA.<br \/>\nIn the process of weaving her first Chief\u2019s Blanket, Flower After the Rain discovers the meaning of giving and receiving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chocolate, Debbi, and John Ward<br \/>\n<em>Kente Colors.<\/em><br \/>\nA rhyming description of the Kente cloth cosumes of the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana and a portrayal of the symbolic colors and patterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark, Ann Nolan<br \/>\n1994 <em>Who Wants to be a Prairie Dog? <\/em>The Salina Bookshelf, Flagstaff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark, Ann Nolan and Hoke Denetsosie<br \/>\n1970 <em>Little Herder in Autumn. <\/em>Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie<br \/>\n1940 <em>Little Herder in Spring. <\/em>Education Division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington DC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie<br \/>\n1950 <em>Little Herder in Summer. <\/em>U.S. Indian Service, Phoenix, AZ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark, Ann Nolan, and Hoke Denetsosie<br \/>\n1950 <em>Little Herder in Winter.<\/em> U.S. Indian Service, Phoenix, AZ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Duncan, Lois<br \/>\n1996 <em>The Magic of Spider Woman. <\/em>Scholastic, New York.<br \/>\nRetells the Navajo story of how a young girl learns from Spider Woman how to keep life in balance by respecting its boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Eversole, Robyn, and Tim Coffey<br \/>\n<em>Red Berry Wool.<\/em><br \/>\nLalo the lamb wants to have a berry-colored sweater like the one the shepherd boy wears, but Lalo has a very hard time washing, spinning, and dyeing his own wool. By the end of the day, Lalo discovers the most important step to making a sweater, which brings him and the boy together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>French, Fiona<br \/>\n<em>2006 <\/em><em>Jamil&#8217;s Clever Cat: A Folk Talk from Bengal. <\/em>Frances Lincoln, New York.<br \/>\nJamil is a poor weaver who daydreams of marrying a princess and never  again having to work. When he confesses his dream to his cat Sardul, the  resourceful feline resolves to make his master&#8217;s wish come true. Sardul  tricks the royal family into thinking Jamil is the richest man in the  world and giving him their daughter in marriage. But the princess soon  discovers that something&#8217;s not quite right, and even Sardul may not be  able to save the situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Freeman, Don<br \/>\n<em>1968 <\/em><em>Corduroy. <\/em>Viking Press, London.<br \/>\nA toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him, he finds what he has always wanted most of all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford, Juwanda<br \/>\n1996 <em>A Kente Dress for Kenya.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gendar, Jeannine<br \/>\n1995 <em>Grass Games and Moon Races: California Indian Games and Toys. <\/em>Heyday Books, Berkeley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gir\u00f3n, Nicole, and Abraham Mauricio Salazar<br \/>\n1983 <em>El Barrio. <\/em>Patria, Mexico, D.F.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Grimes, Nikki, illustrated by Ashley Bryan<br \/>\n1999 <em>Aneesa Lee and the Weaver&#8217;s Gift.<\/em> Lothrop, Lee &amp; Shepard Books<br \/>\nA celebration of the weaver&#8217;s craft, thirteen poems primarily discuss the art and technique of weaving. Three poems are about Aneesa Lee and her family:<br \/>\n&#8220;Aneesa,<br \/>\nlike her mother,<br \/>\nis a weave<br \/>\nof black<br \/>\nand white<br \/>\nand Japanese\u2026&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Heyer, Marilee, teller and illustrator<br \/>\n<em>The Weaving of a Dream, A Chinese Folktale.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hong, Lily Toy<br \/>\n<em>The Empress and the Silkworm.<\/em><br \/>\nA fictionalized account of how the Empress of China discovered silk and made it into beautiful cloth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hunter, Sara Hoagland, and Julia Miner<br \/>\n1996 <em>The Unbreakable Code. <\/em>Northland Press, Flagstaff.<br \/>\nBecause John is afraid to leave the Navajo Reservation, his grandfather explains to him how the Navajo language, faith and ingenuity helped win World War II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnson, Sylvia A., and Isao Kishida<br \/>\n<em>Silkworms.<\/em><br \/>\nAn introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread out of which its cocoons are constructed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitamura, Satoshi<br \/>\n1996 <em>Sheep in Wolves&#8217; Clothing. <\/em>Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.<br \/>\nWhen wolves steal their fluffy coats, two sheep turn to Detective Baa for help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kennard, Edward<br \/>\n1977 <em>Field Mouse Goes to War\/ Tusan Homichi Tuwv\u00f6ta. <\/em>Education Division, U. S. Indian Services, Washington D. C.<br \/>\nA little mouse prepares to rid the Mishongnovi people of a hawk that has been killing their chickens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lacapa, Michael<br \/>\n1992 <em>Antelope Woman: An Apache Folktale. <\/em>Northland Press, Flagstaff. (book and cassette)<br \/>\nA beautiful Apache maiden follows the mysterious young man who has come to teach her people to respect \u201call things great and small,\u201d and becomes his wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>London, Jonathan<br \/>\n<em>The Village Basket Weaver.<\/em><br \/>\nTavio learns how to be the next basket weaver of his village from his grandfather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maitland, Katherine, and Elise Mills<br \/>\n1994 <em>Ashes for Gold: A Tale from M\u00e9xico. <\/em><br \/>\nMitgutsch, Ali, translation of: Von der Baumwolie zur Hose.<br \/>\n1981 From Cotton to Pants.<br \/>\nTraces the journey of cotton from the plants, through the cotton gin and the spinning mill where it is made into thread, to the loom where it is woven into cloth, and finally to the clothing factory where it is sewn into pants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marsden, Carolyn<br \/>\n<em>Silk Umbrellas.<\/em><br \/>\nEach day, Noi&#8217;s grandmother shares with her the Thai art of painting umbrellas. Will Noi&#8217;s skill earn enough money to save her from the mind-numbing work of the local radio factory?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Medearis, Angela Shelf, illustrated by Daniel Minter<br \/>\n2000 <em>Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story.<\/em> Albert Whitman,<br \/>\nSeven quarreling brothers from a village in Ghana must learn to work together to make gold out of spools of thread to earn their late father&#8217;s inheritance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitchell, Rhonda<br \/>\n<em>The Talking Cloth.<\/em><br \/>\nWhen Amber with her father goes to visit her Aunt Phoebe, she wraps herself in cloth from Ghana and learns the significance of the colors and symbols to the Ashanti people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Morgan, William, collector,<br \/>\n1949 <em>Navajo Life Series: Coyote Tales. <\/em>Ancient City Press, Santa Fe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Murphy, Shirley Rousseau<br \/>\n1999 <em>Wind Child. <\/em>Harper Collins, New York.<br \/>\nUnaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind and her use of her extraordinary ability as a weaver to help her achieve her dream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nez, Redwing T., and Kathryn Wilder<br \/>\n1995 <em>Forbidden Talent. <\/em>Northland Pub., Flagstaff.<br \/>\nAshkii, who lives on the Navajo Indian reservation with his grandparents, finds that his way of painting is in conflict with what his grandfather call the \u201cNavajo Way.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ortega, Cristina<br \/>\n1998 <em>Los Ojos del Tejedor\/The Eyes of the Weaver. <\/em>Clear Light Publisher, Santa Fe.<br \/>\nTen year old Maria Cristina goes to visit her grandfather so that he can teach her to weave, as her family in northern New Mexico has done for seven generations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>de Paola, Tomie<br \/>\n<em>Charlie Needs a Cloak.<\/em><br \/>\nA shepherd shears his sheep, cards and spins the wool, weaves and dyes the cloth, and sews a beautiful new red cloak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Polacco, Patricia<br \/>\n<em>The Keeping Quilt.<\/em><br \/>\nA homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Polingaysi Qoyawayma, Elizabeth,<br \/>\n1978 <em>The Sun Girl. <\/em>Museum of Northern Arizona Press, Flagstaff.<br \/>\nA true story about Dawamana, the little Hopi Indian maid of old Oraibi in Arizona and of how she learned to dance the butterfly dance at Moencopi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Raczek, Linda Theresa, and Katalin Olah Ehling.<br \/>\n1995 <em>The Night the Grandfathers Danced. <\/em>Northland Press, Flagstaff.<br \/>\nWhen the boys her own age run away from her at the Bear Dance, Autumn Eyetoo picks a partner from among the old men in the tribe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Raven, Margot Theis<br \/>\n<em>Circle Unbroken<\/em><br \/>\nA grandmother tells the story of the Gullah people and their tradition of basketmaking in this beautiful picture book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Roessel, Monty<br \/>\n1995 <em>Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave. <\/em>Lerner Publications, Minneapolis.<br \/>\nThis photographic account describes the stories and hopes of Jaclyn, a Navajo girl in Kayenta, Arizona, as she learns about weaving from her grandmother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Riquier, Aline<br \/>\n<em>The Cotton in Your T-Shirt.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryder, Joanne, illustrated by Norman Gorbaty<br \/>\n1996 <em>Earthdance.<\/em> Henry Holt<br \/>\nIn a stirring free verse poem about our planet, Earth, we imagine ourselves as bodies larger than the moon, wrapped in a colored quilt of seas and woods and deserts, where children and animals dance as we carry them through space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sabuda, Robert<br \/>\n1999 <em>The Blizzard&#8217;s Robe.<\/em> Atheneum<br \/>\nTeune, a robemaker for her Arctic clan, the People Who Fear the Winter Night, makes an ice robe for Blizzard who repays her with the gift of the Northern Lights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>San Souci, Robert D., illustrated by Raul Colon Orchard<br \/>\n1998 <em>A Weave of Words: An Armenian Tale.<\/em><br \/>\nThe lovely weaver Anait won&#8217;t marry Prince Vachagan until he learns how to read and write and earn a living by his own hands, all of which help to save his life, as this instructive Armenian folktale dramatically shows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shea, Pegi Deitz<br \/>\n<em>Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl&#8217;s Story.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheridan, Thomas E., and Nancy J. Parezo<br \/>\n1996 <em>Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico. <\/em>Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Book and Video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Taback, Simms<br \/>\n1999 <em>Joseph Had a Little Overcoat.<\/em> Viking<br \/>\nIn an adaption of an old Yiddish folksong, Joseph turns his old and worn overcoat into a jacket, a vest, a scarf, a necktie, a handkerchief, a button, and a book, proving you can always make something out of nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wallace, Barbara Brooks<br \/>\n<em>Argyle. <\/em><br \/>\nA Scottish sheep&#8217;s unusual diet causes him to produce multicolored wool, which changes his life and his owner&#8217;s fortune.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weaver, Dorothy Hines, and Kay Wacker<br \/>\n1992 <em>Arizona: A to Z. <\/em>Northland Press, Flagstaff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Willing, Karen Bates, and Sarah Morse<br \/>\n<em>Cotton Now &amp; Then.<\/em><br \/>\nExplains how a simple cotton seed develops into the colorful cloth we use today by comparing modern methods with those of our ancestors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Winter, Jeanette<br \/>\n2001 <em>My Baby.<\/em> Frances Foster Books, New York.<br \/>\nNakunte&#8217;s mother teaches her how to make &#8220;bogolan&#8221;, a cloth painted with mud using traditional techniques practiced for centuries by the women of Mali. After selecting her materials and looking to the natural world for her inspiration, Nakunte is ready to make an important &#8220;bogolan&#8221; for herself, and for her baby.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wyse, Lois, Molly Rose Goldman and Marie-Louise Gay<br \/>\n1998 <em>How to Take your Grandmother to the Museum. <\/em>Workman, New York.<br \/>\nA young girl takes her grandmother on an outing to the natural history museum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Yagawa, Sumiko, teller,<br \/>\n1987 <em>The Crane Wife. <\/em>Mulberry Books, New York.<br \/>\nAfter Yohei tends a wounded crane, a beautiful young woman begs to become his wife, and three times she weaves for him an exquisite silken fabric on her loom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Zelinsky, Paul O.<br \/>\n1987 <em>Rumpelstiltskin.<\/em> Caldecott Honor.<br \/>\nA strange little man helps the miller&#8217;s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her firstborn child.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please contribute your suggestions for this list, which is continuously updated. We are grateful to Jacqueline Butler-Diaz, research consultant, for her additions to this bibliography. Alderson, Sue Ann 1988 Ida and the Wool Smugglers. Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York. 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