Author: Margot Theis Raven
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Genre: Multicultrual
Grade level: PK-3
The book, Circle Unbroken, is about keeping African heritage alive. A grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to sew a traditional sweetgrass basket, while teaching about African tradition. The story begins with a boy sewing a basket so tightly it could hold rain, then the story circles all the way back to the granddaughter sewing the basket today.
E.B. Lewis illustrates this picture book using powerful images of cultural tradition. The paintings walk the reader through time and are so detailed it seems that the reader is there in whatever time period or setting that the story is in. This story is filled with realistic paintings that captivate its readers.
I would use this book in my classroom to promote cultural diversity and tradition. This book would be great to use in a Social Studies time when teaching on culture because this book is all about how a culture keeps a tradition from generation to generation with an unbroken circle.
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