Elsina's Clouds

By Jeanette Winter

Book Overview

A Basotho girl's prayer to the ancestors "When can I paint a wall, Mama?" "When the rains come and wash away my designs, Elsina. Then you can paint the walls," she says. For hundreds of years Basotho women in southern Africa have decorated the walls of their houses as prayers for rain. Bold, colorful art based on traditional African motifs and lyrical prose tell the story of a young girl who paints her first house and waits for the ancestors to hear her.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374321183
• ISBN13: 9780374321185
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3