In Honor of National Spinning & Weaving Week (the first full week of October) here’s a list of CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS WITH WEAVING, SPINNING, KNITTING AND FIBER ART THEMES Many thanks to members of the weaving digest who contributed titles. When I began I had 11 books and 2 folktales! A data base would’ve been the better tool for this job.
Connie Geller
weaver@mediaone.net
www.jacksonville.net/~weaver
October 7, 1998
Pelle's New Suit by Elsa Beskow
Gryphon House; 1989 Reading Level: Ages 6-10
Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie De Paola
Aladdin Paperbacks; 1988 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
The Fog's Net by Pat Pflieger, Ruth Gamper (Illustrator)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); 1994 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Angela Weaves a Dream : The Story of a Young Maya Artist
by Michele Sola, Jeffrey Jay Foxx (Photographer)
Disney Pr (Juv Trd); 1997 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Songs from the Loom : A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave
(We Are Still Here Native Americans Today)
by Monty Roessel Lerner
Publications Company; 1995 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Cotton Now & Then: Fabric Making from Boll to Bolt
by Karen Bates Willing & Julie Bates Dack;
Now & Then Publications, 1996
Los Ojos Del Tejedor : The Eyes of the Weaver
by Cristina Ortega, Patricio Garcia (Illustrator)
Clear Light; 1997 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Joy Street Books from Little, Brown and Co; 1971 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
The Goat In The Rug as told to Charles L. Blood & Martin Link, by Geraldine (the goat)
Aladdin Books, Macmillan Pub. Co; 1990 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
The Weaving of a Dream by Marilee Heyer
Puffin Books, division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; 1986 Reading Level: Ages 8-10
Wool by Annabelle Dixon (text) Ed Barber (photos)
A & C Black Publishers (London) 1988 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
The High Hills by Jill Barklem (part of the Brambly Hedge series)
William Collins sons & Co. 1986 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
The Weaver’s Horse by Jill/Robert Creighton (text/art)
Annick Press Ltd. Toronto 1991 (dist. by Firefly Books Ltd) Reading Level: Ages 8-10
The Weaver's Gift by Kathryn Lasky
Frederick Warne & Co, 1981 out of print A real treasure with b/w photographs!
Folktales—
How My Shirt Grew in a Field adapted from Russian by Marguerita Rudolph
It is about the process of growing flax, retting it, spinning it , and weaving it into a shirt.
Rumpelstiltskin by Jacqueline Ayer
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1967
adapted from Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm;
Household Stories, tr. by Lucy Crane; Macmillan, 1886!
The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen
Knitting --
Amos's Sweater by Janet Lunn (text) Kim LaFave (Illustrator)
A Groundwood Book (Douglas & McIntyre) 1988 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Derek : The Knitting Dinosaur by Mary Blackwood,
and Kerry Argent (Illustrator); Carolrhoda Books; 1990 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
The Queen's New Clothes by Tom Dunsmuir
Random House (Pictureback/Crayon Box); 1998 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sunny’s Mittens by Robin Hansen & Lois Leonard Stock
Down East Books; 1990 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Books with Sheep –
The Shepherd Boy by Kim Lewis
Walker Books (London) 1990 Reading Level: primary
Clifford The Sheep by Sally Sheringham (text) Penny Ives (illustrator)
Octopus Books; 1986 Reading Level: primary
Sheep In A Jeep by Nancy Shaw (text) Margot Apple (illustrator)
Houghton Mifflin Co; 1986 Reading Level: pre-school
NEEDS MORE DATA pub, dates, &/or in print?
Mr. Nick's Knitting
Boys Don’t Knit. Janice Schoop
Half for You - Meyer Azaad -Carolrhoda(?) Books 1971
Pick A Raincoat Pick A Whistle - Lillian Bason
The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco
The Walking Coat - Watson
The Purple Coat - Amy Hest
A New Coat for Anna - Harriet Ziefert & Anita Lobel
Cria the Vicuna - Cullen
Thursday is Market Day - McLeod
The Extraordinary Wool Mill - Fuller
Argyle - Wallace
Thomas' Snowsuit - Munsch
Growing up in Old New England – Bernheim
The Principal's New Clothes - Calmenson
A Wool Surprise for Kenji - Sue Katharine Jackson (in "Ladybug" magazine 1/94)
The Sheep of the Lal Bagh - Lionel Kalish & David Mark - Parents Mag Press 1967
The Story Book of Clothes - Maud and Miska Petersham - JCWinston Co 1933
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing - Judi Barrett -Antheneum 1970
Abuela's Weave
Author-Omar S. Castaneda Illustrator-Enrique O. Sanchez
It's about a young Guatemalen girl and her grandmother weaving tapestries
and fabric for the market place (on back strap looms).
A Tale of the Navajo--The Magic Weaver of Rugs
Author-Jerrie Oughton Illustrator-Lisa Desimini
A folk tale about 2 Navajo women who are taught to weave rugs by Spider
Woman.
Ten Little Rabbits
Author-Virginia Grossman Illustrator-Sylvia Long.
A picture counting book with a Native American twist-for the younger
crowd. Uses rabbits as the subjects for counting in various activities.
Has pictures of a Navajo loom & weaver and different Navajo blanket
designs.