Milstein,Linda Breiner (Author) and Taylor,Cheryl Munro (Illustrator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
New York: Tambourine Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
32 p., A counting and story book set in the Caribbean. Fishermen, market ladies, and babies alike all love coconut. Count down from ten to one with the Coconut Mon as he winds his way around the island.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
214 p., "Collins's novel is a tribute to the Afro-Caribbean oral tradition, a vanishing landscape as well as an exploration in "life sense." Characters such as Carib, Mamag, and Willive struggle against forgetting the historical ties that have implications for the present. In the end Collins would have us understand that the humanity of a people, the survival of a people, rests with its young, the young's willful desire to present to its community what the textbooks do not: the history of ordinary people." --Adele S. Newson, Florida International University.