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A carregar... The Story Blanketpor Ferida Wolff, Harriet May Savitz
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. When Babba Zarrah notices that Nikolai, one of the village children who come to her for stories, has a hole in his shoe, she decides to knit him some nice, warm socks. Unfortunately, the winter snows have prevented any deliveries from reaching the village, and she is out of wool. Nothing daunted, she unravels a piece of her story blanket, and uses the material to make some socks. Over time, as she notices more and more villagers in need, she unravels more of her blanket, until it is completely gone. The villagers, noticing these unusual anonymous gifts, soon get to the bottom of it, and touched by Babba Zarrah's generosity, reward her with some gifts in return... Pairing a poignant tale with lovely artwork, The Story Blanket is a picture-book exploration of community, storytelling, and reciprocal generosity and caring. I see from the author blurbs on the rear dust-jacket flap that co-author Harriet May Savitz passed away in 2008, the same year the book was published. Perhaps Ferida Wolff finished the story for her? If so, how appropriate that this was a co-authored book, given the fact that it contains a tale about communal use of resources, and how the material of the story blanket is shared out among the many villagers, only for those villagers to contribute the material for a new blanket. I haven't read anything else by these two authors, nor have I encountered the work of Spanish illustrator Elena Odriozola, but The Story Blanket is certainly enough to convince me to give their work another try, when the opportunity presents itself. Recommended to anyone looking for children's books about storytelling, community, sharing, and/or knitting. This timeless tale is about a wise old lady who tells stories to all the children of her village as they sit on her wool blanket. But the blanket starts to get smaller and smaller as she unravels sections of it to provide gifts to keep her fellow villagers warm. These anonymous gifts are a mystery until the children recognize the wool from their depleted story blanket, and the villagers return the favor by providing the old lady with a new batch of wool yarn. The overall theme is one of general kindness and communal sharing. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
With no wool to be found in the village, Babba Zarrah, the storyteller, starts unraveling her story blanket bit by bit, to secretly supply the needs of the community, and when the villagers realize what is happening they return the favor. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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