Region: Jamaica

Anansi

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others. Includes an audio cassette featuring narration and music.

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Doctor Bird: Three Lookin’ Up Tales From Jamaica

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

Doctor Bird is one smart hummingbird! When he sees Mongoose stealing food, he drops a weather goofball on her house and really teaches that thief a lesson. When Mouse’s home is destroyed by a storm, Doctor Bird teaches him to keep his head up. And when Owl plans to crash a party dressed like Doctor [...]

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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

An apple pie is easy to make if the market is open.But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients.

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Blue Mountain Trouble

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by series of mysterious events involving the return of [...]

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A Season For Mangoes

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Sareen is attending her first sit-up, a Jamaican tradition that celebrates the life of a loved one who has died. The whole village has come to share memories of Sareen’s Nana. Sareen wants to tell her stories of Nana’s last mango season and their search for the perfect mango, but she’s afraid the words won’t [...]

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A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Richard Hughes’s celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. [...]

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The Tangerine Tree

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Ida finds out that Papa must leave Jamaica to work in America, she’s heartbroken. But there is some consolation in knowing that Papa needs her to care of the tangerine tree while he’s away, and his parting gift of a book comes with a promise: he’ll be home again by the time she’s able [...]

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Where Jamaica Go?

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Jamaica has fun and sees many colorful sights as she goes downtown, goes beach, and rides home with Daddy.

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The Face at the Window

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dora learns to overcome her fears of a mentally ill woman who lives in her community in this gentle and compassionate story set in contemporary Jamaica, West Indies.

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Angelina’s Island

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: August 2, 2007

Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.

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