PICTURE BOOKS
(4) K-3 This attractive picture book catalogs the natural inspirations for mud designs on African bògòlan cloth. Readers may have difficulty following the protagonist's swift transformation from child apprentice to a married woman preparing cloth for her own baby, including a brief birth scene at the end, but the eye-catching folk illustrations in a bright pastel palette are engaging.

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