http://wowlit.org/catalog Browse our collection of literature Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:54:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780887082306/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780887082306/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:00:35 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780887082306/ Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others. Includes an audio cassette featuring narration and music.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780887082306/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780399227448/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780399227448/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:43:33 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780399227448/ 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 Bird, Doctor Bird teaches him to be himself–and be proud of it. Presented in the rich storytelling tradition and lush colors of the West Indies, these three tales remind readers that it’s always best to look up when problems land at your feet. Jamaicans believe Doctor Bird has magical powers, and if you don’t believe them, just ask Mongoose, Mouse and Owl! Gerald Hausman lives in Bokeelia, FL. Ashley Wolff lives in San Francisco, CA.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780399227448/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780679837053/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780679837053/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:01:02 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780679837053/ 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.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780679837053/feed/ 1 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780545041560/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780545041560/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:01:02 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780545041560/ 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 a local troublemaker and secrets from their family’s past.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780545041560/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618159727/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618159727/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618159727/ 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 come or that she’ll begin to cry. It’s only when Sareen faces her fear that she realizes it’s not the sadness of Nana’s death that she’ll remember best but the joy of Nana’s life.Set amid the rich culture and lush scenery of Jamaica, this moving book offers the hope of rediscovering joy after a loss and pays tribute to the remarkable power of story: to touch, to connect, and to heal.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780618159727/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780940322158/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780940322158/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780940322158/ 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. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780940322158/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395689639/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395689639/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395689639/ 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 to read it.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395689639/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780531088753/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780531088753/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780531088753/ Jamaica has fun and sees many colorful sights as she goes downtown, goes beach, and rides home with Daddy.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780531088753/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395786253/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395786253/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395786253/ 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.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395786253/feed/ 0 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374303495/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374303495/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:35:10 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374303495/ 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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