Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story

by Angela Shelf Medearis

Book Description

This latest title is an original folktale that will help introduce children to the holiday's seven principles, while also suggesting how Kente cloth was first created. In a Ghanian village, a father's will commands that his seven argumentative sons must make gold from silk thread "by the time the moon rises," without fighting. Working together, the brothers create a tapestry of Kente cloth, the first multicolored cloth the village has seen, which they sell to the king's treasurer for gold, before returning to their village to farm and live harmoniously. Well-paced, the story incorporates the Kwanzaa values without spelling them out too much...An introductory section, with glossary and pronunciation guide explaining the principles, and an appended craft activity round out the volume.

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