May 2011 Issue

Wanderer in Blue by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

By Kids/Teens

• Daddy Who (poetry) by Solace Mills (15 years old)
• What It Means To Be Black (poetry) by Shaunti Farrell (11 years old)

• The Mad Hatter (illustration detail) by Paul McConnie (5 years old)
• The Garden in the Keyhole (illustration) by Samantha Dupigny (6 years old)


Contributions by the Young at Heart

Fiction

• Bass by Grethel Joseph
• The Rose Apple Tree by Patricia Whittle
• Play On Deon by Jan Bester
• The Resourceful One by Mirlande Jean-Gilles‏
• Sun, Moon, Darkness, Rain and Heart: An African-Caribbean Folktale by Gerald Hausman


Nonfiction

• Bedtime Meditation for Children by Grethel Joseph  
• "The Caribbean needs more young readers"— Summer Edward interviews Nicholas Gillard of Macmillan Caribbean Publishers
• Writing Up a Storm by Sarah Venable - One Barbadian teacher's efforts to get primary school students writing


Illustration

• Dreamer by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
• Dreams and Experience (set) by Dirk Joseph
• Deon by Jan Bester
• Grace and Violet by Dirk Joseph
• Wings Made of Words by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné


Guests from Around the World!

• Dining Together by Aditi Laddha (14 years old, illustration)
• Current Situation of Children's Illustration in Costa Rica by Wen Hsu (nonfiction)

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