Showing posts with label Hazel Campbell's ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hazel Campbell's ebooks. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2015

New children's story on amazon

New children's story on amazon
Only 99 cents 



http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B0155JHSXM

Sasha gets the part of Red Riding Hood in her school play, but she is a very imaginative girl and the details of the play begin to intrude on her real life. When her mother sends her to take dinner for Mama Esther, the oldest woman in her village, things get a bit complicated, as what she thinks is a wolf demands that she give him the food. Sasha's s reaction sets off a chain of events which lead to a happy ending after all. But when things calm down, her mother has to remind her."It's just a play. Sasha."

 Sasha is not so sure about this.

http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B0155JHSXM

Extract

"Sasha hastily gulped down her dinner and set out with the food carrier. What her mother said was true. She would have to walk fast as she didn’t want dusk to catch her on the lonely road.
She was very happy that when she reached Mr. Nettie's yard the dogs were not out. She immediately felt better and began to swing the carrier as she walked. Then she remembered the song in the play and began to hum it. Then, since nobody else was on the road, she began to sing out loud and do the dance she would do in the play.

I'm on my way to grandma's house
With special food for her to eat
There's chicken and rice and peas so sweet
Veges and cake for a grand dessert.

She twirled around and swung the carrier the way she had to do it on stage, then she sang the song again. It was at this point in the play that the wolf started to follow her on the stage.

Sasha didn't feel so safe anymore. She looked around fearfully. The bushes on either side of the country road began to look like large forest trees. Why was it suddenly getting so dark? Was that something following her in the bushes? 


"That's a very nice song," a voice said. "'Do the dance for me again, nuh."
 

http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B0155JHSXM

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Is Anancy mek it happen





www.amazon.com/Mr-Kings-Daughter-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00ESEWI6I/




In Anancy stories, the King, who was always looking for a fitting suitor to marry his daughter, would set difficult, almost impossible tasks, with the promise that the young man who overcame them would get to marry his daughter.

     In this story, wealthy Mr King decides to adopt this Anancy approach to find the right husband for his sad, lonely daughter who he keeps almost in prison in their mansion in the village. But he forgot that it is Anancy the trickster who was always the winner of the princess's hand.

     Mr. King announces that the first young man who could make Simone laugh would marry her and inherit his fortune.

     Many young men try, but Simone remains sad and forlorn until Cock Chicken, an upcoming  DJ, sings for her and gets her to laugh.
     But he doesn't turn up on the day of the wedding.

     How will Simone face this new disappointment? Can she continue live with her misguided father? Find out how she makes a life for herself and eventually finds her true love.

A coming of age Jamaican YA story

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Excerpt from Mr.King's Daughter

Here's an excerpt from Mr. Kings' Daughter my new ebook It's a modern folktale. Take a look inside on amazon



  '"I want my princess to be happy, so the young man who can make my daughter laugh will get her hand in marriage." He gleefully announced his plan to Miss G, who didn’t need any urging to spread the news. In no time at all, all the villages around were buzzing with the news that Mr. King would give his daughter in marriage to the first young man who could make her laugh.
   Excitement broke out when the news spread. The young men in Hopeful Village and surrounding areas began to spruce up themselves. You should see them! Some got special haircuts the sight of which would make an ordinary girl collapse with laughter — bumps and curls and plaits and shaved head — separate and mixed. Special clothes fit for clowns or old time jesters were made. They went around practising big boy jokes on anybody who would listen. Some even went to the nearest town to check the Internet. The owner of the site jokestotickleyourgirl.com must have wondered about the sudden increase in daily hits.'
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ESEWI6I