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Stars With Flaming Tails by Valerie Bloom ill. Ken Wilson-Max

February 15, 2021 By achuka 1 Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 16 Feb 2021

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Valerie Bloom is one of ACHUKA’s favourite poets and this is her first new solo collection for several years. Bold black illustrations from Ken Wilson-Max throughout.

Organised into poems about Family And Friends, Fun With Forms, Our World, and Unbelievable.

Bloom is a poet who never seems short of material. She can write about anything. And there are poems here about welcoming a new child, pancakes, washing and tidying, hair combing, extreme weather, a volcano, a forest, dangerous animals, a dissatisfied nose, the colour of dreams and many more (in excess of 60 altogether).

The section giving examples of different poetic forms (Echo Verse, Rondel, Skeltonic Verse etc.) makes this an invaluable collection for teachers and young writers looking to experiment.  And, more generally, Bloom’s mastery of rhythm and rhyme and the natural way in which she slips from the concrete to the figurative, will have readers spellbound.

Very highly recommended.

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When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten

December 20, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 21 Dec 2020
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 18 Oct 2020

A wonderful evocation of a Caribbean island childhood and a gripping mystery debut with a jaw-dropping twist…

Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it looks. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with her best friend Gaynah. There’s only one problem – she can’t remember anything that happened last summer. When a quirky girl called Rudy arrives from England, everything starts to change. Gaynah stops acting like a best friend, while Rudy and Clara roam across the island and uncover an old family secret. As the summer reaches its peak and the island storms begin, Clara’s memory starts to return and she must finally face the truth of what happened last year.

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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Caribbean, debut, friendship, mystery

Full Moon Night In Silk Cotton Tree Village (A Collection of Caribbean Folktales) by A Collection of Caribbean Folk Tales

May 6, 2016 By achuka Leave a Comment

9780008147242

Learn all about the strange goings on in Cotton Tree Village with these four traditional tales from the Caribbean, beautifully told here by award-winning author-poets, John Agard and Grace Nichols.

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