The Seven Days of Kwanzaa, like the holiday itself,celebrates people pulling together to make things better. John Ward's warm illustrations, framed by painted kente cloth borders, illuminate a text that honors the richness of African-American culture and traditions from lighting candles to singing songs to storytelling to making mkeka mats. The text also includes the principle and symbol of each day of Kwanzaa, lyrics to songs, and four simple recipes to make for the holiday feast. Progressively wider pages, made of durable card stock, create an eye-catching step-format that makes it easy for little fingers to turn the page.
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PreSchool-Grade 2. Stiff pages in progressively gradated widths, each trimmed with an African design, are used to describe the African-American harvest festival. A double-page spread is devoted to each of the seven days of Kwanzaa. It features a full-page painting on the verso and the date and a symbol on the recto along with a song excerpt, a short verse, or an activity related to the principle of the day. Four recipes are appended. Unfortunately, the presentation is uneven. For example, the text for the Third day, which has the principle of "Ujima" (working together), states: "We sweep the yard./We paint the gate./Everything looks better./We are pulling together." But on the Fifth day, with its principle of "Nia" (purpose), the connection is not so obvious: "Here's how we light the candles./First the black, next a red,/then a green, then another red,/and then another green." The verse is followed by an excerpt from "This Little Light of Mine." Like Harriet Ziefert's Eight Days of Hanukkah (Viking, 1997), this book is bright and accessible. Donna L. Washington's The Story of Kwanzaa (HarperCollins, 1996) and Andrea Pinkney's Seven Candles for Kwanzaa (Dial, 1993) both offer lengthier explanations of the holiday for a slightly older audience. A serviceable addition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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