Caribbean Children's Fiction

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Caribbean children's books - As we enter 2011

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One of my new year’s resolutions is to try to catch up on the technology as it relates to books, their p...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas inspiration for children's story

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In my latest book for children Bernie and the Captain’s Ghost , the protagonist and the other five ch...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Caribbean children's fiction - A child's view of Christmas

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For Daniel I love Christmas. Presents!  I love Christmas. Presents! That’s mostly what I can think of. This last week of school is not nice...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Animals in our children’s books

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Being an island, we don’t have a wide variety of animals in Jamaica. We inherited lions and tigers and other continental animals in our An...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Why a Goatboy?

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I have been asked why the name goatboy in the title of my latest chapter book for children which is A Goatboy Never Cries . Here's an e...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Importance of book covers

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Summer Edward on her facebook pages has been posting book covers from various Caribbean Islands. So far s...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Thought provoking article for ALL Caribbean writers

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Why is our literature so different?   Are these thoughts relevant to Caribbean writers for children,too? What do you think ? http://cari...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

I love my hair

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You've got to check this! watch the video The longing for silky, long hair is still a problem for black children!! What are we writ...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

BIAJ chapter book nominations

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My chapter book A Goatboy Never Cries has been nominated for the People's Choice award by the Book Industry Association of Jamaica  (BIA...

Traditional Christmas Entertainment - Jonkunnu in Jamaica

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"Jonkunnu a Come" In Jamaica, up to the fifties and sixties, at Christmastime masked Jonkun...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Author involvement in selling books

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Nobody can deny that authors should help to promote and sell their books. This seems to be standard procedure in the big countries. I find t...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Book review #1 - Little Island-Big Adventures

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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...
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