Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Boyds Mills Press (Caroline House) [First Edition]
Pages
32
Description
In this contemporary folktale set in ancient Japan, a young girl climbs a long silk strand hanging from heaven and discovers her grandmother waiting for her.
Description
Night after night, as she weaves a long silk strand, Grandmother tells her granddaughter Yasuyo stories from her long life. Then one day Grandmother is gone. Saddened, Yasuyo walks in the garden. There she finds a beautiful and puzzling sight --a long silk strand hanging from the sky. Only when she climbs the silk strand to the top of the clouds does Yasuyo learn its true meaning.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
32 p.; 10.8 inches
ISBN
1563972360 / 9781563972362
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LibraryThing member mildred981
In this story a young Korea girl forms a tight bond with her grandmother. Every night her grandmother ties together two silk strands and tells her stories of her life. Each new strand her grandmother adds represents a part of her life, all forming one big strand. Then one morning her mother told
This is a wonderful story that teaches children how to deal with the passing of a love one. In Addition, this story is an inside into other culture traditions.
A fun activity for parents to do with children after the reading this book, would be to create a tradition that you and your kids can do that will leave lasting memories. Also, teacher can read this story if anyone in the class have recently lost a love one.
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her, her grandmother had died in her sleep. She is saddened by the news, the frantically looks for her grandmother. She walks out the garden and looks up in the sky and she sees her grandmother silk strand hanging from the clouds. She climbs up it and sees her grandmother and she explains how with this silk strand she will always be with here and that her memories are interwoven in the silk strands. This helps her find closure and she too thought she would someday do the same for her granddaughter.This is a wonderful story that teaches children how to deal with the passing of a love one. In Addition, this story is an inside into other culture traditions.
A fun activity for parents to do with children after the reading this book, would be to create a tradition that you and your kids can do that will leave lasting memories. Also, teacher can read this story if anyone in the class have recently lost a love one.
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LibraryThing member larrellharris
Summary:
This book is about a young Korean girl that forms a tight bond with her grandmother. Everynight her grandmother would tie two strands of silk together representing a part of her life, all forming one big strand. Later finding out that her grandmother dies in her sleep.
Personal Reaction:
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Classroom Extension:
This book will teach the children on how to deal with the passing of their loved ones.
This book is about a young Korean girl that forms a tight bond with her grandmother. Everynight her grandmother would tie two strands of silk together representing a part of her life, all forming one big strand. Later finding out that her grandmother dies in her sleep.
Personal Reaction:
I
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was really fasinated with this book,because,i liked the bond that she had with her grandmother,because i had a similar bond with my grandmother.Classroom Extension:
This book will teach the children on how to deal with the passing of their loved ones.
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LibraryThing member alaskagirl
night before grandma died grandma was telling me a story about the silk strand. The girl name is Yasuyo and she is very sad , she could find the big ball of silk of grandma memory so she ran out side and found a strand and was pulling on it but it is to strong so she climb ,climb,climb until she
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got the cloud and saw her grandma ,she huged her and said she wants to stsy with her grandma said okay lets say good by to your father,mother and her brother and said they will miss you if you stay with me ,so yasuyo grandma said you will always be with me ,she gave her a strand and this is all the momories of us. Show Less
Awards
Marion Vannett Ridgway Award (Honor — 1996)
Call number
J2K.505