A young girl in Haiti is eager to learn how to carry a basket to market in an exuberant picture book with universal appeal.
As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and bal. "To carry the panye, we move gracefully, even under the weight of the sun and the moon." In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman.
A young girl in Haiti is eager to learn how to carry a basket to market in an exuberant picture book with universal appeal