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The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper (Author) and Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A poem about the winter solstice
As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again.
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The Promise Basket
by Bill Richardson (Author) and Slavka Kolesar (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A stone when it’s thrown can damage, can break, but nothing can shatter the promise I make.
So begins the poem a mother writes on a scrap of paper. She wraps the paper around a stone and places it in a basket to give to her daughter on her first birthday. They are poor, but the mother is determined that gifts will be given when gifts need giving. She keeps her promise, and the Promise Basket, too.
Every time there is a need for gifts, the mother finds a pretty stone to tie up with paper and ribbon, and gives it to her daughter in the basket. She continues the tradition over the years until her daughter has a baby of her own . . .
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