The First Blade of Sweetgrass
by Suzanne Greenlaw (Author), Gabriel Frey (Author), and Nancy Baker (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: A modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow for future generations.
Snippet: As Grandmother’s blue truck crested the hill, Musqon saw the ocean for the first time that day. The water’s surface sparkled in the sunlight. “Look, Uhkomi. Is this where we pick the sweetgrass?” Musqon asked excitedly.
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