About the Book: Story Rug
From two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall and beloved artist Phoebe Wahl
comes a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the
satisfaction of learning a new craft.
The children of Class 203 are learning to braid. They started with hair and
shoelaces, and now the children have brought rags from home. Their braid gets
longer and longer until one idea transforms it into an extraordinary surprise
for their teacher.
Here is the story of a rag rug, woven through with the stories of the scraps
used to create it and those told during its making. The