Rainbow Weaver / Tejedora del Arcoíris
Rainbow Weaver’s charming story highlights the art, culture, and economic status of indigenous Guatemalans. Young Ixchel is anxious to learn the ancient art of weaving from her mother. She decides to make her own loom and threads from natural materials around her village, but nothing she weaves comes out right. Losing hope of creating a textile beautiful enough to sell in the market, Ixchel has a stroke of genius—to collect the colorful plastic bags that litter the corn fields and turn them into thread for her loom.
Abigail K. Dillingham, M.Ed., an art teacher in Alexandria City Public Schools, has developed a weaving lesson to accompany this book.
See also our review of Rainbow Weaver at SocialJusticeBooks.org and our video review of in Episode 6 of Freedom Reads: Anti Bias Book Talk.
Lee & Low Books has published a teaching guide and coloring pages to accompany this book.
Read a story about families reading Rainbow Weaver at Langdon ES during Teach Central America Week.
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