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| ISBN 10 : 11274 99599 ISBN 13: 978 11274 99595 |
(Newbery Honor - 1972,
California Book Awards, Juvenile, Silver - 1971,
Christopher Award Winner -1972)
Beginning of the End
"Whatever, that comes from the Earth, goes back to the Earth in the end". Is there any other precise way, to explain the inevitable death and to talk about the harmony of our world, to a child?
Annie's little world of mesa, in the land of Navajo, is filled with her mother's weaving loom, her father's jewel-making fire and her grandmother's profound love and intimacy. Though insisted, Annie has not started to weave yet. When her mother starts to weave a new rug, the grandmother tells them that when the rug is finished, she would go to Mother Earth. The grandma, living in perfect harmony with the nature, can know of her death early.
