Grandmother cooks, weaves, and dances. She herds the sheep, makes cedar beads, and lulls tired grandchildren to sleep. While she does all these things, she wears her beautiful Navajo skirts -- velvet skirts of many colors that swish and sway as she moves. Grandmother's life is filled with beauty of the best kind: beauty of kindness, beauty of family, and beauty of love. Her actions are a lesson to all those around her, especially to her bright-eyed...

A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier.