Caribbean Children's Fiction

My New Year resolution is to WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! What's Yours? Best wishes for a really good year everyone

Have a Happy and Holy Christmas Season everyone. Thanks for following my blog posts during the year. Love to you all Hazel

Carlong link Congratulations to Diane Browne for the launch of her new book Island Princess in Brooklyn at the Tom Redcam library readin...

What memories will today’s children have of Christmas? I wonder. Is it still such a special season for them? I grew up in Kingston, and m...

I am so proud of my student from my last writing class, Stephanie Lloyd. She won a gold medal and trophies in the Jamaica Cultural Developm...

Our Language Dilemma Creole (patois/patwa) versus Standard English – the debate continues. It spills over into writing stories for our ch...

My thanks to Peepal Tree Press for including the fact that I won a Silver Musgrave Medal in their latest newsletter. Adam Lowe also put in t...

When geocities closed down their free hosting of websites, I thought all the information would disappear. I am seeing now that they are res...

My plaque from the Institute of Jamaica for the Silver Musgrave Medal of which I am very proud.

I belong to a generation which often forgets to blow its own trumpet. (Don't boast they used to warn) So, I forgot to post my m...

My granddaughter's computer generated art at 6 years of age. Just recently recovered it from my old geocities page. Think I will write ...

This is a question I have asked before. When you are writing from a small country with specific cultural differences to the world’s leadi...