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Basket Moon
By Ray, Mary & Cooney, Barbara
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-31673-521-6
- Publisher
- Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, c1999.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1999
PreS-Gr 3 This engaging book tells about a young boy's coming-of-age in an isolated rural community around the turn of the last century, and about the special baskets made by the people who live in the hills above the Hudson River. For years, the child has been eager to join his father on his monthly walk to the nearby town to sell the baskets. Pa always goes at the time of the "basket moon" (the full moon) because he needs its light to find his way home. Finally, after the boy's ninth birthday, he a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
