From award winning author Bill Richardson and highly acclaimed illustrator Slavka Kolesar comes a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift.A stone when its thrown can damage, can break,but nothing can shatter the promise I make.So begins the poem a mother writes on a scrap of paper. She wraps the paper around a stone and places it in a basket to give to her daughter on her first birthday. They are poor, but the mother is determined that gifts will be given when gifts need giving. She keeps her promise, and the Promise Basket, too.Every time there is a need for gifts, the mother finds a pretty stone to tie up with paper and ribbon, and gives it to her daughter in the basket. She continues the tradition over the years until her daughter has a baby of her ownThe love between a mother and her daughter is celebrated in this lyrical story from Bill Richardson, featuring colorful illustrations by Slavka Kolesar.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US kindergarten-3rd grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Groundwood Books Ltd , Canada .

Bill Richardson is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novel "After Hamelin," which won the "Silver Birch Award" from the Ontario Library Association in 2001. He has published several novels for adults and is a popular radio host.