Basket Weaver and Catches Many Mice
Author | : Janet Gill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2005-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 075679420X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780756794200 |
Rating | : 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Tells the fable of an Asian man named Basket Weaver who made baskets for housewives & others. But the most important baskets were the ones he made for the newborn babies. These were the beds they would sleep in, & into each he wove the spirit of the child. One day he saved a drowning cat from a spring. She stayed with him, & he called her Catches Many Mice. In the autumn a messenger came from the Emperor. The Empress had given birth to her first child & the basketweavers of the four provinces were ordered to weave a bed for her. The weaver of the best one will be chosen to live in the palace as the official Basket Weaver; the losers will be sent to work in the mines for 7 years. Basket Weaver wins, with the help of Catches Many Mice.