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Belton, Sandra.
BEAUTY, HER BASKET
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2004.
IL K-3
ISBN 0688178227
A young girl is spending time with relatives in the Sea Islands.  She is fascinated with a beautiful basket and longs to know how to make one.  As she learns to make the sweetgrass basket, she learns its history and the history of her people as well.
SUBJECTS:     Gullahs -- Fiction.
                        Sea Islands -- Fiction.
                        Grandmothers -- Fiction.
                        Sweetgrass baskets -- Fiction.
                        Baskets -- Fiction.
                        African Americans -- Fiction.

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