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End of Year Round Up

Believe it or not, 2017 is almost over and it’s been an exciting year. Here are some highlights:

We are already gearing up for next year with the publication of several new picture books and a large project we hope to launch, so stay tuned!

Here is what we published in 2017:

 

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CODE sponsored Read with Me author tour Trinidad November 8-11, 2017

Burt Award winning authors toured Trinidad this November, thrilling children and adults with their books. The event was sponsored by CODE and BOCAS Lit Fest.

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November issue of Zing Magazine available now

The November-December 2017 issue is now on LIAT planes. This issue’s Caribbean Lit page features books by Tracey Baptiste, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Jacob Ross, artwork by Danica David, and an interview with Haitian fiction author, Katia D. Ulysee. Pick up your copy on your next Caribbean trip.

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Raise the Bar, a Youth Spoken Word Showcase

This weekend the Code sponsored BOCAS Lit Fest Burt Award book tour ended with Raise the Bar, a youth spoken word showcase at the Government Campus Plaza auditorium on Wrightson Road. This was a free and open event for all secondary school students, their families and teachers. The event was very well attended and uncovered lots of wonderful talent in the secondary school community in Trinidad and Tobago.

Author Danielle Y. C. McClean with the winning Red Team

Authors Danielle Y. C. McClean and Tamika Gibson show there support for promoting literacy

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#ReadWithMe Campaign Launch

Some of the past winning authors of the Burt Award for Caribbean Literature descended on Trinidad this week to entice youth with their books. This week of activities brought to us by Bocas Lit Fest and CODE was aimed at putting young people into direct contact with authors and getting them excited about reading. Visit the Bocas Lit Festival website or more information.

Burt Award Winners

Left to right Danielle Y. C. McClean (The Protectors’ Pldege), Imam Baksh (Children of the Spider), Florenz Webbe Maxwell (Girlcott), Tamika Gibson (Dreams Beyond the Shore)

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Plant A Seed To Read Sandy Point

This morning, November 2, 2017, marked the completion of the first stage of the Sandy Point Plant A Seed to Read project. Heidi Fagerberg introduced the curriculum to the teachers in a workshop leaving them with books and copies of lesson plans and activities to take the books directly into the classrooms. We are looking forward to the feedback from teachers and students on their enjoyment of the books!

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OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme Adds CR Books

The OECS/USAID Early Learners’ Programme (ELP) is a reading development programme for young learners administered by the OECS Commission with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The programme includes teacher training and providing educational resources for schools. As a part of this programme, the OECS chose several books for inclusion in the classrooms. Seven of CaribbeanReads’ titles were chosen for the programme, namely, the three Living The Beach Life Series by Heidi Fagerberg, Look! A Moko Jumbie by Opal Palmer Adisa, Seascapes by Carol Ottley-Mitchell, The Angry Sun by Jazey Wallace, and The Crumb Bunch by Heidi Fagerberg.

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September Zing Magazine

The September-October 2017 issue is now on LIAT planes. This issue’s Caribbean Lit page features books by Zetta Elliott, Lennox Honeychurch, and Helen Klonaris and an interview with Blue Banyan Books’ publisher Tanya Batson-Savage. Pick up your copy on your next Caribbean trip.

 

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The Protectors’ Pledge-New Review-Richly Imaginative

The latest review of The Protectors’ Pledge by Danielle Y. C. McClean bills it as a great follow up to the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings. The reviewer says “The Protectors’ Pledge was a compelling read from cover to cover–so much so that my daughter begged to keep reading until we finished.”

Read the full review here.

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Reading at Undercover Books, St. Croix

Celebrated author Opal Palmer Adisa reading from her new short story collection, Love’s Promise.

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