Showing posts with label Hazel Campbell.Multicultural books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hazel Campbell.Multicultural books. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2016

Update on writing fantasy for our children


The joyful thing about fantasy is that there is no limitation on your imagination.

AND

There are no new stories, just different ways to tell them!
For example, as enchanting as some of our Jamaican River Mumma stories are, perhaps she could do with an update. What if she had hair extensions or Rasta locks and a name change to Sista Tall Hair?  What could happen  when, intrigued by dance hall music, she wants to come on land to dance (sounds a bit familiar?) What other characters would you put in that story? Would she go online to a search engine to find out how to change to human form? Or how to dance with a fishtail? Or start her own dancehall sessions on the reef?

What if our Cinderella (new name) falls in love with the prince who is the son of King Dudus? The glass slipper might be a lost cell phone instead! –  "Call to be picked up at 12 o'clock", but her credit was stolen by the jealous sisters! ( The I-Twos!!)  The ball of course would be a dancehall session. What adventures would she have? And could she influence change in the 'kingdom'?

There are no new stories, just different ways to tell them!


These three ebooks make an attempt at this. Check them and tell me what you think.


What if a genie washed up on a Jamaican beach in a shell instead of a bottle?
https://www.amazon.com/Whitni-Bondi-Pirate-Genie-Campbell-ebook/dp/B01DEC2EXG/

 Here are the adventures of three Jamaican musketeers. Make that four musketeers when Darty joins them.
https://www.amazon.com/Shiney-Missing-Porty-Jamaican-Musketeers-ebook/dp/B00QWFM4F6/ 


 The school play adapted from the story of Red Riding Hood becomes real life for Sasha with strange consequences.
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Play-Sasha-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B0155JHSXM

This story of Mr King's Daughter has its genesis in an Anancy/Anansi story.
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Kings-Daughter-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00ESEWI6I/
 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

My New ebook for children- Follow the Peacock



 

My New ebook for children 8 to 12 years.
An easy read story


https://www.amazon.com/Follow-Peacock-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B01M6UVYRZ



Phillip and Jodi have quite an adventure in a new high tech maze in Fi Mi Fun Park. It's so intense Jodi vows that nothing else will ever frighten her in life again. The white peacock, George, is quite a tricky one. 

An easy to read story. 

check it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Follow-Peacock-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B01M6UVYRZ

Friday, July 1, 2016


When a FAIRY TALE becomes a SCARY tale 

I changed the cover of my children's ebook It's Just a  Play, Sasha.
Read  the first part here
 See amazon page
 https://www.amazon.com/Just-Play-Sasha-Hazel-Campbell-ebook/dp/B0155JHSXM/


Friday, January 15, 2016

January16 is APPRECIATE A DRAGON DAY




January16 is APPRECIATE A DRAGON DAY.

Meet DROG, a Jamaican Dreggen, cause he couldn't really be a dragon, could he?


Drog scares Grandma. Shannon has to convince her Drog is harmless, cause he needs her help.


https://www.lmhpublishing.com/children/drog-dreggen-story-bk-1

 or on amazon at 



                               ENJOY

DRAGONS ARE FUN
Dragon things to do

Write a story about your very own dragon! Where does it live? What does it eat? How does it spend its day? Does it have friends?  Who are they?
    
What would your dragon look like? Draw and colour it?

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