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Title: Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave by Monty Roessel ISBN: 0-8225-9712-8 Publisher: Lerner Publications Company Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Author Brings Honor to his Subjects
Comment: "Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave" is the BEST, most sensitive and comprehensive children's book on the subject. Photographer and writer, Monty Roessel, took a personal approach to creating this book when he chose his daughter and his mother as subjects. He documented his ten year old daughter, Jaclyn, as her grandmother taught her to weave. The fifth grader learned about the practical aspects of weaving; like shearing sheep, carding and spinning wool, natural dyes, and weaving techniques. Nali Ruth (Grandmother) also taught Jaclyn about important Navajo stories related to weaving and the significance of each tool.
This book has an informative, well written text and wonderful graphics. It has many photographs and informative diagrams. Small samples of different rug patterns appear in the margins every few pages, leading to a full page map of the regions associated with the patterns. The wooden Navajo loom is shown in a labeled drawing. The traditional stories of how weaving originated for the Navajo people are on separate pages from the rest of the text, bordered by a rug-type design. I would recommend this book for both adults and children over 8 as a delightful way to learn about this subject. He honors his mother, his daughter, and Navajo weaving with this book.
If you are buying this book for a child, "Navajo Rugs and Blankets: A Coloring Book" by Chuck and Andrea Mobley, with Sam Mike as illustrator, is a must have supplement. Children interested in "Songs From the Loom" will find themselves inspired to experience Navajo rugs and this coloring book is a great way to extend the story!
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Title: The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood, Martin Link, Nancy Winslow Parker ISBN: 0689714181 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 30 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Navajo Rugs and Blankets: A Coloring Book by Chuck Mobley, Sam Mike, Samuel Mike, Andrea Mobley ISBN: 0918080762 Publisher: Rio Nuevo Publishers Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Chief's Blanket by Michael Chanin, Kim Howard ISBN: 0915811782 Publisher: HJ Kramer Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Annie and the Old One by Peter Parnall, Patricia Miles Martin ISBN: 0316571202 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: NAVAJO ABC by Luci Tapahanso, Eleanor Schick ISBN: 0689826850 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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