Sand, Sea and Poetry
By Ashley-Ruth Moolenaar Bernier
Illustrated by Yolanda Fundora
Have you ever gone to the beach in the middle of January? Eaten scores of Caribbean food at a Carnival Food Fair? Picked mangoes or genips or limes from tropical trees? Sand, Sea and Poetry is a book of verse that celebrates the very best things about childhood in the Caribbean! Read along to find out how to pack up for a hurricane, why mosquitoes aren’t so bad after all, which three Virgin Islanders have lives that inspire, and who might pay you a visit if you leave your trash on the beach…