Agard, John
The calypso alphabet.
Illustrated by Jennifer Bent.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993
A concept book using Caribbean terms and sayings only.  

Agard, John
No hickory no dickory no dock: a collection of Caribbean Nursery rhymes; by John and Grace Nichols.
Illustrated by Penny Dann: London: Viking, 1991
Here’s a new and very different collection of Nursery rhymes by acclaimed Caribbean poets John Agard and Grace Nichols which provides a fresh and exciting alternative to traditional collections. There are new looks at the familiar nursery rhymes, a host of entirely original rhymes, and characters, plus a bonus of Caribbean ones drawn from the poets’ own childhood memories. Imaginative, accessible, warm and always appealing in its images and rhymes, No Hickory, no Dickory, no Dock is an essential and captivating addition to every young bookshelf.

Agard, John
Say it again, Granny! twenty poems from Caribbean proverbs.
London: Little Mammoth, 1990.
An off-beat collection of poems from Caribbean proverbs by the award-winning Guyanese poet, John Agard.

Anthony, Michael
Sandra Street and other stories.
London: Heinemann, 1973
Anthony writes about ordinary people in these simple stories full of childhood memories and emotions.

Anthony, Michael
Cricket in the road.
London: Heinemann in association Andre Deutsch, 1973
These pictureque stories conjure up a vivid picture where West Indian, African and Chinese mingle together against a brilliant background to create the vignettes that Anthony draws. Humour and sympathy reveal the delights and troubles of life in the "Island".

Ashtine, Eauline
Monkey liver soup and other tales from Trinidad.
Illustrated by Brian Robins:
Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, Nelson Caribbean 1973 

Bacon, Peter R.
Caldong. London: Macmillan, 1978
Stories set in Trinidad are "mostly true": They are adventures set on the beach in Matura. Meet Mr Williams, Alan and Beverley, the Chinese shopkeeper, Lee Tung and of course Caldong, the turtle.

Benjamin, Floella
Why the agouti has no tail and other stories.
Basingstoke and London Macmillan Education, 1988.

Bennette, Olivia
Festival! Carnival! Festival! Divali.
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1986
The Commonwealth Institute and Macmillan Education have joined together in publication of "Festival!". Each book in the festival series explores the celebration of a particular festival in many countries of the Commonwealth.
 
Berry, James
Anancy Spiderman [20 Caribbean folktales].
Illustrated by Joseph Oiobu:
London: Walker Books, 1989
Anancy, the hero of these lively and intriguing Afro-Caribbean tales, is both man and spider.

Berry, James
Classic poems to read aloud.
Selected by James Berry; with line drawings by James Mayhew:
London: Kingfisher, 1995.  

Berry, James
Celebration song: a poem. 1^st American ed:
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994.

Berry, James
A thief in the village and other stories.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
A marvellous collection of stories about children and young people in present day Jamaica. Wonderfully atmospheric in background situation and rhythms and patterns of speech, these very contemporary narratives bring alive a setting and culture highly relevant to multi-ethnic Britain.

Berry, James
The fortune telling lady: seven stories.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991.
Here is a thrilling collection of new stories from James Berry, fully demonstrating the power and the variety of his creative gifts.  

Blackman, Malorie
Betsey Biggalow is here! Caribbean stories.
London: Mammoth, 1993.
When Betsey decides to have a HELP THE WORLD day she never imagines how difficult it will be. Four delightfully warm and funny stories set in the Caribbean.

Bruce, Teddy
Caribbean bunch and read and colour. Barataria, Trinidad: Caribbean Cartoon Characters: Macprint Promotions, c 1989.
Caribbean Bunch is a group of cartoon characters, created and designed to entertain and educate all children.  

Burgie, Irving
Caribbean Carnival : songs of the West Indies.
London: Macmillan, 1993
Familiar Jamaican folk songs with musical scores amidst bright childlike illustrations are found in this book. Rosa Guy, renown Caribbean writer provides an historical afterword.  

Calpu, M.
The best of sweetbread: a Christmas collection.
[Trinidad]: [M. Calpu]., 1977
Charles Candy celebrates Christmas in Trinidad and Tobago.
 

Comissiong, Lynette
Mind me good now!. Illustrated by Marie La France:
New York: Annick Press, c 1997.
Tina and Dalby disobeyed their parent’s instruction and crossed the forbidden bridge only to be captured by the dreaded Cocoya. Read about their wiles in trying to escape this witch. Reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel, Comissiong a librarian, introduces a new folk-lore character, the Cocoya. Storytelling at its best, this book is also written in French and was nominated for the prestigious Totem Award.
Award winning illustrator Marie La France paintings beautifully complements this delightful story.  

Copilah, Martin
Tales from Happyville.
New York: Vantage Press, c 1994
Some outlandish characters inhabit Happyville. There is Eggy, a very peaceful dragon but one with extra hot feet. Also meet Kangy, Wonita and Ignore. A happy place where nightmares are not allowed, dwarves, fairies and dragons and other exotic creatures live in harmony.

Craig, Karl
Emanuel goes to market.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971
Beautiful illustrations complement this Caribbean story of a boy who takes his parrot to market and the adventures against tropical scenery excellent  

Dabydeen, Cyril
Sometimes hard.
Kingston, Jamaica : Longman Caribbean, 1994
Set in Trinidad, Sometimes Hard revolves around twelve year old Leroy Blue, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is about to go and live with his aunt in New York the city where dreams become real! But he has mixed feelings about leaving. The story climaxes around the events of the island’s annual jamboree – The Sylo Easter Ball.

D’Costa, Jean
Escape to last man peak.
Trinidad and Jamaica : Longman Caribbean 1985
When seafaring Uncle Simon Peter returns home on leave, he gives Annabell, Peter and Dennis momentos – a compass, a watch and a pair of binoculars. The children soon find that these gifts take on an unusual significance once their uncle returns on his ship, and to the dangers of life at sea in World War II.

D’Costa, Jean
Voice in the wind. Trinidad : Longman Caribbean, 1978
When seafaring Uncle Simmon Peter returns home on leave, he gives Annabell, Peter and Dennis momentos – a compass, a watch and a pair of binoculars. The children soon find that these gifts take on an unusual significance one their uncle returns to his ship and to the dangers of life at sea in World War II.    

De Silva, Zennie
Moods 2 : poems for the young.
[Port of Spain] : [Trinidad], c 1997
A follow up to the writer’s first book of poems, "Moods". De Silva has included poems suitable for almost any occasion. eg Graduation, Father’s Day, Divali and Christmas.
Beautifully written, rythmically sound De Silva’s ability to see the world through the eyes of a child is reflected in the many verses.

Dyand, W. B.
Mano Motomaxi and the maxi-taxi.
D’Abadie : Green Tree Press, c 1997.
Through this concept book, which features the letter "M", trace Mano Moto-Maxi journey in his maxi-taxi where he discovers notable men, all with the letters "M", from Marcus Garvey to Michael Jackson. Bold illustrations intermingle against comic-book style, biographical notes and glossary.  

Dyand, W.B.
Those who ate the cascadura.
D’Abadie: Green Tree Press, c 1996
This book introduces children to various people who have settled in Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean over the past one thousand years. This history is told from the point of view of a captured cascadoo fish, an endangered species native to the region
 
Dumas, Sonja
Anansi and the golden coconut, The carnival friends, Why the Scarlet Ibis has long legs.
[Port of Spain] Trinidad: Multimedia, 1990.
These three folk tales and cassettes by Sonja Dumas are a welcome addition to the Read-along-with-me cassettes which are imported with unfamiliar scenes of golden hair maidens and snow.

Gambrill, Linda
A boy named Neville.
Kingston, Jamaica: Heineman, 1990
Neville doesn’t pay much attention to school and is always boasting about his great life. As things happen to Neville, Beenybud discovers not only the truth about her friend but also the truth about friendship itself.  

Gambrill, Linda
Croaking Johnny and Dizzy Lizzy.
Jamaica : Heinemann Caribbean, 1990.
Lizards are ugly! Or are they? Croaking Johnny didn’t have any friends, for after all, who would want to be friends with a lizard. Then he meets Dizzy Lizzy, and discovers there’s a lot more to life than sitting on a bench.  

Gosine, Ramsamooj V.
The coming of lights.
Yorkshire : Peepal Tree Books, 1992
Set in two villages in Trinidad, one in a flat sugar-growing area the other in a cocoa-growing area in the hills. This is a sensitive account of the paraplegic orpahn Balwant, his courage and friendship amidst the failings of adults in his life.

Greenberg, Melanie Hope
Aunt Lilly’s laundromat.
New York: Dutton Children’s Book, 1994.
Aunt Lilly thinks about her home in the island of Haiti while she works in a laundromat in Brooklyn.  

Gunning, Monica
Not a copper penny in me house : poems from the Caribbean.
Pennsylvania : Wordsong : Boyds Mills Press, 1993
From the fury of tropical hurricanes to lazy picnics by the sea, Saturday mornings at the market in Kingston, to classes under the trees, this original collection of poems beautifully portrays one child’s life in the Caribbean.  

Guy, Rosa
Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog.
London : Macmillan, 1988.
Racing down Dead Man’s Hill on his roller-skates, Paris almost forgets that his mother told him to stay at home and do the housework. But his friend Pee Wee had persuaded him to come out. Before long, they run into trouble with the police and others.
Rosa Guy’s story of three boys hanging around the streets of New York is great fun and very true to life.

Hallworth, Grace
Cric crac : a collection of West Indian stories.
London: Mammoth, 1994
Cric Crac is a colourful collection of eight traditional tales from the West Indies told by an expert storyteller.
Illustrations of Avril Turner.

Hallworth, Grace
Listen to this story : tales from the West Indies.
L ondon : Mammoth, 1992
Brer Anansi and Brer Snake and How trouble made the monkey eat pepper are the first two of the delightful stories included in this collection of West Indian folktales. Hallworth retells with the humour and vitality of expression for which she has become renown.

Hallworth, Grace
Mouth open story jump out.
London: Methuen, 1984.
Grace Hallworth spins a spell-binding web of tales that begin in the Caribbean when friends and strangers meet, exchange news, and tell each other of strange happenings in their daily lives.  

Henry, Gale
Granny and me.
Toronto: Women’s Press, c 1994.
The writer reminiscences on her childhood days spent with her grandmother doing things together and sharing in her local meals. She is saddened by her inevitable death but is comforted by her beautiful memories.  

Hill, Sonne
Phantom on the cemetery wall and other short stories.
[Port of Spain]: Sonne Hill, 1984.
The stories in Phantom on the cemetery wall … have a national ethos as their background. They deal with carnival, ethnicity, religion, politics, duplicity, and of course, love.

Hilton, Anne
Leroy: the story of a streak lizard.
Port of Spain : Publishing Associates, 1977.
This is the story of Leroy , a streak lizard and his adventures in a garden home in the Caribbean. The author gives each character a personality which seems appropriate to the animal and their behaviour is based on sound biology. Instructive and entertaining.
 
Jolly, Dorothy
The Crab Man.
London: Addison Wesley : Longman, 1996.  

Jolly, Dorothy
A challenge for Sophia.
London: Longman 1997

Jones, Evans
Tales of the Caribbean: witches and duppies.
Aylesbury, Bucks: Ginn, c 1984.
Each set of book in this series contains folk-tales, legends, poems, and songs which reflect the atmosphere, character and culture of one’s geographical area.  

Jones, Jennifer
Benji and Carlos;
[also] illustrated by Penelope Knight:
London: Arawaidi, 1984.
This is a tale of an ordinary little boy who meets a quiet extra ordinary frog.

Joseph, Lynn
Coconut kind of day: Island poems.
New York: Linthrop, Lee and G. Shepard Broks, c 1990.
A book of poems set in the Caribbean enhanced by vivid illustrations.  

Joseph, Lynn
Jasmine’s parlour day.
New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, c 1994.
It’s Parlour Day on Maracas Bay and Jasmine although selling her sugar cakes and fresh fish, still finds time to skip along the beach to meet her friends and observe the mauby, sorrel, ginger beer and crab & dumplings of the other vendors.  

Joseph, Lynn
A wave in her pocket: stories from Trinidad. New York: Clarion Books, 1991.
Stories from this book are narrated through "Tantie". "Some are funny, some are tender and some are too scary to hear in the dark".

Jones, Evan
Skylarking.
Essex : Longman, 1994
Two Jamaican children – Leroy and Vi – sleep out on their grandmother’s roof one night. Drawn into space by the attraction of the stars they land on a planet inhabited by gentle being.  

Keens-Douglas, Richardo
Freedom child of the sea.
Toronto, New York: Annick Press, c 1995.
Swimming in the beautiful waters of the Caribbean sea the narrator has an encounter with a beautiful boy with un-usual marks on his body. An old man at the sea shore tells a tale of slavery and its hardship on the Middle Passage and a mother giving birth to this boy. Interesting and educational.  

Keens-Douglas, Richardo
Grandpa’s visit.
Toronto: Annick Press, c 1996.
Grandpa is visiting family in North America, but they’re too busy for much besides TV and video games. But one night the power fails, and it turns out that Grandpa’ gift to Jeremy – a simple ball – is just what the family needed, after all.  
 

Keens-Douglas, Richardo
La Diablesse and the baby: a Caribbean Folktale.
New York: Annick Press, c 1994
It was a rainy night and granny was rocking the baby to sleep when a very tall, elegant lady requested to shelter the rain. Her triple demands to hold the baby aroused granny suspicions. Keens-Douglas simple tale of the La Diablesse is enhanced by the beautiful illustrations of Marie La France.  

Kincaid, Jamaica
Annie John.
New York: New American Library, 1985.
Antigua becomes a rich backdrop for eight stunning episodes of this book. Annie John begins by adoring her beautiful mother but inexplicably she comes to hate her. Adolescence takes this brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellion and secret discoveries – and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her island home. Named one of the Best Books of 1985 by Library Journal.  
 

Lessac, Frane
Caribbean alphabet.
Additional text by Mark Greenwood:
London: Macmillan Caribbean, c 1989.
A concept book which utilizes familiar Caribbean words with the indistinctible Frane Lessac’s primitive style paintings.  

Lee, Jacintha A.
Give me some more sense: a collection of Caribbean Island folktales.
London: Macmillan, 1988.
Mrs Jacintha Lee has translated the folk-tales from the local French Creole of St Lucia and woven them into facinating stories for young and old.  

Linden, Ann Marie
One smiling grandma : a Caribbean counting book.
London : Heinemann, 1992
The little girl looks forward to her holiday with her grandmother, they play a special counting game that will bring back the time spent together long after summer is over.

Lomax, Alan
Brown girl in the ring: an anthology of song games from the Eastern Caribbean.
Collected and documented by Alan Lomax, J.D. Elder and Bess Lomax Hawes:
New York: Pantheon Book, Random House, c 1997.
Together with J.D. Elder, cultural activist, award winning author Alan Lomax has collected sixty-eight children’s song games – the music, the lyrics, and the stories behind them – from countries throughout the Eastern Caribbean. Also included are personal essays that detail Lomax’s experiences while recording the music and Elder’s encounters with the traditions upon which the songs are based.  

Madame Teteron and the dragon & other stories:

Maharaj, Ashram B.
Indo-Trinidadian folk-tales in the oral tradition; with an introduction by Kenneth Ramchand:
Beucarro, Trinidad: Indian Review Committee, 1990.
A significant contribution to the preservation of an important facet of the oral tradition of Trinidad.  

Marley, Robert Nesta (1954-1981) May, Chris
Bob Marley. Illustrated by Trevor Parkin:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 

Mc Cartney, Norma
Tales of the Immortelles: a collection of Caribbean folk-tales.
London : Macmillan Caribbean, 1989.
This collection of short stories transports the reader into a magical world of Caribbean folklore and legend; of heroes, princes and fairies; of animals and flowers of the Caribbean which can talk.  

Mills, Therese
A kite for Christmas.
[P.O.S. Trinidad]: [The Author], [1974].
Mills pays tribute to Eric Roach in the story "A Kite for Christmas". She also shares with us the bustle and excitement of local Christmas amidst DEW’s remarkable illustrations.

Mitchell, Rita Phillips
Hue Boy.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993.
Everyone in Little Hue Boy’s village has suggestions on how to help him grow but he learns to stand tall in a way all his own. A rythmic tale glows in the expressive water-colours of renowned artist Caroline Binch.  

Morton, Julie
The magical mystical ibis.
Port of Spain Trinidad, West Indies: Morton Salvatori Publishing Ltd., 1991.
The magic and mystery that surround the beautiful Scarlet Ibis…Feel their joys…and fear, in this land they have learned to love and must leave.  

Morton, Julie
A wacky wonderful West Indian alphabet.
Port of Spain: Morton Salvatori Publishers, c 1992.
A concept book of local environmental objects told in verse.  

Palmer, C. Everard

Baba and Mr Big. London Macmillan, 1992
Jim Anderson is lonely when his family move from Savanna – La-Mar to Kendal, Jamaica. Wanting to make friends he accepts a challenge from a group of local boys which will give him the right to join their "secret club". But he finds help from Baba, a lonely but sturdily independent old man. However, his troubles has just began.

Palmer, C Everard
Big Doc Bitterroot.
London Macmillan, 1992
Kendal was just an ordinary village until Doc Bitteroot came into town. It was wartime and Nathan Berwick was the acknowledged leader of the community. But he couldn’t stand Doc Bitteroot. Indeed, Bitteroot was a cheat and trouble was sure to happen when he tried one of his phoney cures.  

Palmer, C Everard
The wooing of Beppo Tate.
Surrey: Nelson Caribbean, c 1972.
Beppo lived in Kendal, Jamaica with the old man who adopted him from a live of poverty. Beppo falls in love with Mrs Belmont’s daughter Daphne. However, trouble lurks, Mrs Belmont and the old man are enemies. There are also problems with Teppy.  

Palmer, C. Everard
A cow called Boy.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1993
There is an uproar when Josh takes bull-calf Boy to school. He is ordered to get rid of the animal. But Josh is a fighter he organises demonstrations and a hunger strike and generally keeps his problem in the public eye.

Parmasad, Kenneth Vidia
Salt and roti: Indian folk tales of the Caribbean a first collection.
Chaguanas, Trinidad: Sankh Productions, c 1984.
A portion of the great traditions of India which has survived the journey across the dark water…

Rahaman, Vashanti
A little salmon for witness: a story from Trinidad.
New York: Lodestar Books, c 1997.
Today is Aaji’s birthday, and Rajiv still does not have a present for his grandmother. Luckily it is Good Friday and a holiday in Trinidad, so he can pick a bouquet of wild flowers and grasses in the Savannah while practicing cricket. Whe he discovers why Aaji is unhappy about not having any salmon on this day, he decides instead that fish is the perfect gift for her. But how can he afford such a luxury?
Sandra Speidel’s vibrant pastels contributes to this interesting Trinidadian tradition.

Ramsawack, Al
I love colours.
Trinidad: Lyretic, 1973.
I love colours aims at developing neuromuscular co-ordination in writing skills.  

Sadu, Itah
Christopher changes his name.
Richmond Hill, Ontario: Scholastic Canada, 1996.
Christopher is tired of his boring, nothing special-about-it name. So he decides to change it. Then he changes it again… and again… Finally he discovers that only one name is the right one – but by then everyone has forgotten it!

Sadu, Itah
Christopher, please clean up your room!.
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Scholastic Canada, c 1993.
Christopher is a great kid. He’s cool, he’s smart, he’s…messy. His family and friends think his bedroom is disgusting.
The room is so untidy
the shoes smell funky, funky
and the fish bowl stinks
But nothing can make Christopher clean up his room – until his goldfish get really bugged!  

Sadu, Itah
Name calling.
Toronto. Women’s Press, c 1992
Jennifer called Cindy a name. A name that hurt worst than when she struck her funny bone. Follow her and her friends to the principal’s office amidst the interesting and repetitious chants of her friends to have this matter resolved.  

Salkey, Andrew
Hurricane.
London: Puffin Books, 1977
Joe and his family experience Hurricane Chod one night. What happens after makes a thrilling story with all the flavour and atmosphere of Jamaica.

San Souci, Robert D.
The faithful friend.
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c 1995
Retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.  

Saunders, Dave
The West Indians in Britain.
London: Batsford, 1984
Dave Saunders provides a living portrait of one Barbadian and two Jamaican families, living in Birmingham, Bristol and London.  

Sealey, John
Music in the Caribbean. Introduction by the Mighty Chalkdust, Hollis Liverpool:
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982
Music in the Caribbean is a non-technical textbook on Caribbean music.  

Sherlock, Philip M.
The illustrated Anansi.
London: MacMillan, c 1995
Stories of Turtle, Rat, Crow and others, all animals, behaving like men and women are retold by Sir Philip Sherlock, eminent West Indian scholar. Everyone becomes excited when Anansi appears. They laugh at the way he tricks all the strong animals. All the tales poke fun at human failings – greed, selfishness and vanity – things that deserve to be laughed at.

Sherlock, Philip M.
Three Finger Jack’s treasure.
Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica Publishing House, 1969.
Three Finger Jack, Hilary, Eby and John set about an adventure in Maroon county.  

Sherlock, Phillip
Anansi, the spider man. Jamaican folk tales.
London: Macmillan Education, 1995.  

Sherlock, Philip M
Ears and tails and common sense : more stories from the Caribbean.
London : Macmillan Press, 1994
A collection of stories from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guadeloupe and the fifty-one inhabited islands of the Caribbean. Colourful and wise, suffuse with sunshine, all the of the tales poke fun at human failings.  

Springer, Eintou Pearl
God child stories and poems for children.
London: Karia Press, 1988.
Poems of patriotism intermingle with delightful adpatations and Trinidad culture. Salivate through the local dishes of sweet bread, toolum, sugar cakes and breadfruit steamed with dasheen bush leaf and coconut milk ,but also learn the lessons through the unforgettable Christmas stories.

Three short stories: Trini boy, Laurine, Late again; by
Marilyn Cole; by Hazel Gibbs de Peiza; by Daphne

Whitfield, Dorothy
Carib breeze.
Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Pub., 1993  

Wickham, John
Discoveries : short stories.
Essex : Longman, 1993.
A selection of human stories. Everyday events, unimportant as they may seem, help to shape a person’s character and outlook in life.
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