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      Elsina's Clouds

      by Jeanette Winter
      Published
      Apr 2004
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      40
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      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.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Picture Books

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      First Edition Apr 2004 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374321183
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