REVIEW: Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story by Angela Shelf Medearis, illustrated by Daniel Minter

In an African village live seven brothers who make life miserable with their constant fighting. When their father dies, he leaves an unusual will: by sundown, the brothers must make gold out of seven spools of thread or they will be turned out as beggars.

Review

Though the story is not actually about Kwanzaa, the actions of the seven brothers display and teach the principles of it. Seven quarreling brothers must somehow learn to harmoniously work together or they will lose their inheritance. ...