A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.

Come into My Tropical Garden (A Young Lion Poetry Book)

Nichols, Grace

Binch, Caroline

HarperCollins, Publishers

'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading series for ages 4-7, featuring both fiction and non-fiction titles which encourage children to develop their reading skills.

Tiger Dead! Tiger Dead! Stories from the Caribbean: Band 13/Topaz (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

KITAMURA, SATOSHI

Agard, John

Animals

Collins Educational

A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura.
• Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
• Text type: A poetry book.
• An illustration on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to recap the poems they have read in the anthology.
• Curriculum links: Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play it again - exploring rhythmic patterns; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world

Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat)

Literature & Fiction

A ground-breaking collection of children's poetry filled with life, music and rhythm that brings together the voices of black writers from Britain, Africa, America, Asia and the Caribbean. Including work from Benjamin Zephaniah, Maya Angelou and Zinziswa Mandela, this is an exciting anthology, compiled by one of today's top black British writers.

Poetry Jump Up: Anthology Of Black Poetry

Puffin

Whole of a morning sky

'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline . . .' It is 1960 and the Walcotts are moving into the city from the village of Highdam. School headmaster Archie Walcott knows that he will miss the openness of pastureland; his wife, Clara, the women and their nourishing 'womantalk and roots magic; and Gem, their daughter, her loved jamoon and mango trees. Their move into the rough and tumble Charlestown neighbourhood couldn't have come at a worse time, for the serenity of the city is exploded by political upheavals in the country's struggle for independence. Undercover moves - CIA-backed and supported by Britain attempt to bring down the Marxist government. Along with the sweep of events - strikes, riots, and racial dashes - daily life in the Charlestown yard and beyond gathers its Own intensity, Archie's friend, Conrad, seeing and knowing all, moves with ease among the opposing groups, monocle to his eye, white mice in his pockets; through one terrible night the neighbourhood tenses as the Ramsammy's rum shop is threatened with burning; and Archie, troubled by the times, tries to keep a tight rein on his family. Young Gem, ever-watchful, responds with wonderment and curiosity to the new life around her. In this, her first adult novel, Grace Nichols richly and imaginatively evokes a world that was part of her own Guyanese childhood.

Whole of a Morning Sky

Biographies & Memoirs

Virago UK

Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet &nbsp; &nbsp;Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'. &nbsp;

The Fat Black Woman's Poems (-)

Reference

Virago

A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes

Come on Into My Tropical Garden: Poems for Children

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

Come on into My Tropical Garden: Poems for Children

Grace Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.

The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets)

I Is a Long Memoried Woman

Karnak House

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