Caribbean Children's Fiction

Here is a Caribbean children’s book which is immensely interesting as it gives a glimpse of life in the 1960s on one of the tiny Grenadine i...

When I was writing my last post ‘Humour in Children’s Books’, I realized that two of the situations I was...

I am one of those who complain that there isn’t a lot of humour in Caribbean children’s books. I guess...

I think I need to add something to my comments ( a few posts ago) on Dr. Cherrell Shelley-Robinson’s tal...

As a child I read everything I could lay my hands on. Heaven was going to the library on a Saturday to...

I attended Dr. Cherrell Shelley-Robinson’s talk A We Dis? at the University of the West Indies, Mona ...

The creative process is fascinating. Sometimes I can recognize the inspiration for a story, someti...

One of the concerns of educators in the Caribbean is the fact that the children are so reluctant to ...

I begin with a quotation: “It can easily be suggested that children’s literature is not about children at all.  Rather, it is about ...

Anansi jester pot by Shannon Once upon a time there was a great famine in the land. People could hardly find anything to eat. Anansi an...

Shannon's Anancy Anansi (a.k.a  Anancy) the cunning spiderman came to Jamaica with the slaves from West Africa . So...

Now that World Cup football fever has subsided, perhaps we can take a look at another very popular sport in the Caribbean – cricket. N...