{"product_id":"anansi-and-the-talking-cloth-isbn-9781623544218","title":"Anansi and the Talking Cloth","description":"\u003cb\u003eIllustrated by Caldecott Honor Award winner Ekua Holmes, this modern and original Anansi the Spider story explores traditional kente-cloth making, written by award-winner Caroline Brewer, in cooperation with weaving expert Kwasi Asare.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen kente-cloth weavers stop weaving, Anansi the Spider must save the city in this rhythmic African folktale, a rhyming read-aloud trickster picture book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rhyming and rhythmic original Anansi fable finds Anansi the Spider needing to save the city. One day the sun stops shining because the kente-cloth making spiders stop weaving in protest against mass-produced cloth. Handmade kente cloth has made Africa famous and the spider city wealthy. Without it, the city is doomed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnansi faces the biggest challenge of his spider life, and his clever trickster past, coupled with help from his wife, will restore harmony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Caroline Brewer and master kente-cloth weaver Kwasi Asare worked together to create this fresh take featuring the African trickster Anansi the Spider, a classic hero.\u003cb\u003eCaroline Brewer\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning children’s book author, artist, environmentalist, literacy consultant, and creator of Nature-Wise, a program for students and teachers that blends literacy and nature exploration. Caroline is also author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eHarriet Tubman, Force of Nature \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003e Say Their Names\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the Washington, DC, metro area. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKwasi Asare \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Nsawam, near the capital city of Accra, Ghana, and is one of Africa’s most prominent and accomplished weavers known for kente cloth, the highly prized Ghanaian cloth that traditionally symbolizes royalty, honor, and leadership. For the United Nations’ fiftieth anniversary in 1995, he created a new kente cloth design. Until 2017, it replaced the original cloth created by Kwasi’s father, A. E. Asare. www.kwasiasare.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEkua Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded a Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King’s John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, Robert Siebert Award, and Boston Globe–Horn Book award for \u003ci\u003eVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, \u003c\/i\u003eher first illustration project. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration twice: \u003ci\u003eOut of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Stuff of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003ewww.ekuaholmes.com\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Charlesbridge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232926478565,"sku":"NP9781623544218","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781623544218.jpg?v=1767721531","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/anansi-and-the-talking-cloth-isbn-9781623544218","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}