Each morning as the sun brightens the West African sky, mother and child prepare to start their day. They spend it bound together, the child riding on the mother’s back watching their world go past. Pounding millet, drawing water from the well, visiting friends, shopping at the outdoor market. They share the days in perfect step with one another. And even when the child grows big enough to go off and explore their world, the everlasting embrace endures.
- ISBN: 9780670784745
- Author: Emanuel, Gabrielle
- Illustrator: Lewis, E.B.
- Published: 2014 , Viking Juvenile
- Themes: Culture, Family, mothers
- Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Fiction, Mali, Picture Book
- No. of pages: 40