Caribbean Reads is pleased to announce that the Caribbean Adventure Series will be among the books that will be used by primary school students in Montserrat for their book reports for the CXC exam that their students will be taking next year. Read the full press release here.
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Fury on Soufriere Hills listed among the best Caribbean books of the year for young readers
On Monday 16 December, 2013, the Trinidad Guardian put out a list of Caribbean books. This was their inspiration:
“This Christmas, why not give a Caribbean book? We’ve rounded up some of the best books of the year for children, young people and adults.”
Fury on Soufriere Hills was listed among those books for younger readers.
Check out the full article here.
Congratulations to Carol Ottley-Mitchell on this recognition.
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CaribbeanReads author nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Award
On October 10, 2013 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the list of nominees for the Astrid Lindgren Award were announced and CaribbeanReads author, Carol Ottley-Mitchell was among the awardees.
The Award, which was created in honour of the famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the Pippi Longstocking and one of Sweden’s most important authors, is billed as the world’s largest children’s literature award.
Ottley-Mitchell was nominated for her popular Caribbean Adventure Series, four books which feature the adventures of three Caribbean children and a mischievous vervet monkey. The first book, Adventure at Brimstone Hill, is set at the historic Brimstone Hill Fortress in St. Kitts.
The other books are each set in a different Caribbean island, Jamaica, Trinidad and the latest book, Fury on Soufriere Hills, is based in Montserrat. Children reading these adventure books are exposed to the culture, history and geography of the Caribbean.
The Kittitian is one of a few authors from the English speaking Caribbean who have been nominated for the prize in the last ten years.
Mrs. Mitchell said that it was indeed an honour to be nominated, to have the books reviewed by an international audience, and to be listed alongside best-selling children’s author such as the award-winning Beverly Cleary.
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Montserrat here we come!
CaribbeanReads author, Carol Ottley-Mitchell will be traveling to Montserrat to promote her new book based in that island.
“I am very excited and pleased to be going to Montserrat this evening. Tomorrow, August 10, I will be presenting a copy of Fury on Soufriere Hills to the Montserrat Public library.
“This will be my first visit to Montserrat and I am very grateful to the library for inviting me and organising the visit.”
Look out for photos of the visit coming soon!
For more information, go to TrulyCaribbean.net.
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Living the Beach Life – Kindle version
When Heidi and I published An Unlikely Friendship, the first book in the Living the Beach Life Series, we received a number of requests for a kindle version of the publication.
We hesitated for a while. With the print edition, we laid out the book, chose the font sizes and positioned the pictures with care. With a kindle version of the book, everything changed. On a kindle, the reader can change the size of the print and thus determine the way that the book looks and where the photos fall. It took some tinkering and some letting go, but the kindle version of Lion Paw and Oliver is now available on Amazon so be sure to pick up your copy today!
A kindle version of Book 2, Remember Me will be coming soon.
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My favorite things
I think I have said this many times, so pardon me if you have heard it before. One of my favorite activities is conducting author visits at elementary schools. Continue reading
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A short story from one of our writers
Carol Mitchell recently had a short story published in the April 2013 issue of the St. Somewhere online journal. The Soup is a very real story of how domestic violence can quickly escalate to a critical level.
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And then there were nine…
Caribbean Reads’ ninth book, Seascapes, is now available on Amazon just in time for the holidays. It has been hailed as a delightful collection of beautifully illustrated stories about friendship. Great for children 8 and under although my 12 year old loved it. Get your copy today!
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Seascapes Proof is in my hands
Last night before I went to bed I checked (for the 100th time) on the status of the delivery of the proof of my latest book, Seascapes. Imagine my surprise when I noted the status as “delivered”. The notes read “Delivered to Customer Boy”. It took every bit of restraint in my body not to get him out of bed to ask him for the package. Luckily good sense prevailed and I decided to look for it myself. Sure enough, lying on the floor in front of the TV was the usual brown cardboard packing that has come to mean “Proof”. Thankfully the proof was error free, imperfect, but probably only in my eyes and so the book should be available on Amazon in a day or two. Yippee!
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Chee Chee’s story
Chee Chee and I are so excited that we got the third book in Chee Chee’s Adventures finished and I cannot wait to start work on the fourth. Ann-Cathrine is loving this process as much as I am and her illustrations are more and more beautiful with every book.
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