Come on into my Tropical Garden
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The illustration on our cover is taken from Think of an Eel, Karen Wallace, ill. Mike Bostock, published by Walker (0 7445 2250 1, £6.99) - see the article 'Facts... With the Freshness of Fiction' for more about this book and others in the 'Read and Wonder' series. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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Illustrated by Caroline Binch
The kaleidoscope of life in the Caribbean is vividly created in this superb collection of some 30 poems written from a child's point of view. Topics include listening to jumbie (ghost) stories, family relationships and the flora and fauna of the islands. It's good to see this book available in paperback at last, albeit it without the colour illustrations of the hardback, but Grace Nichols' words are more than sufficient to paint colours in the imagination.
