A SWEET

40 pages. Color paintings.

1995

Hardcover, $18.95

ISBN 978-0-87844-127-3

ISBN 10: 0-87844-127-1

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Ages 5^-9. Anyone who has visited South Carolina has seen the sweetgrass baskets sold in the marketplaces and along the road. Clary uses a conversation between a basket weaver and her young granddaughter, who wants to learn the skill, as a vehicle for explaining how the baskets are woven and their African-based history. Unfortunately, the text is rarely less than didactic, and there's never any sense that these are real people rather than just mouthpieces. Still, sweetgrass basket weaving is becoming a lost art, and it is nice to have this information in a book, even an imperfect one..... Ilene Cooper

A SWEET, SWEET BASKET

Written by Margie W. Clary and Illustrated by Dennis Brown

A modern day story rich in history and tradition. A wonderful tribute to the skill and dedication of the sweetgrass basketweavers of Mt. Pleasant, SC who have preserved from extinction an age-old African craft.

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About the illustrator:

Dennis Lee Brown is a self-taught portrait painter. He grew up in South Carolina and today lives on James Island.