Yetsa's Sweater

by Sylvia Olsen

Book Overview

"What are you knitting into this sweater, Grandma?" Yetsa asks. Grandma smiles. "Flowers. Fish and waves. Woolly clouds, and blackberries." From the author of No Time To Say Goodbye, The Girl with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550391550
• ISBN13: 9781550391558
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Sono NIS Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended as an educational and multicultural celebration of family love.

Former Cowichan sweater shop operator Sylvia Olsen presents Yetsa's Sweater, a children's picturebook tribute to the tradition of knitting sweaters on Coast Salish (on the Tsartlip Reserve near Victoria, British Columbia) and the bonds between mothers, grandmothers, and granddaughters that highlight the creation of knitted sweaters. Impeccably illustrated by award-winning artist Joan Larson, Yetsa's Sweater follows the entire process of creating a Cowichan sweater through the eyes of a young girl, from harvesting and spinning the fleece to the actual knitting. The final two pages offer a more concise history of Coast Salish knitted sweaters. Highly recommended as an educational and multicultural celebration of family love.