Activity Sheets for Good Night My Sweet Island - Reading Agency Summer Reading Program 2024 From the Reading Agency – below is the exclusive activity sheets for Good Night My Sweet Island. Click on the link to get to the page and access the Activity Sheets....
The Reading Agency Summer Reading Challenge We’re thrilled that Good Night My Sweet Island, our new children’s picture book written by Petrea Honychurch Seaman and illustrated by Susanne Heitz , has been chosen by the UK’s Reading Agency as one of only 25 picture...
Remembering Clayton Shillingford Dr Clayton Shillingford, who sadly died last month, was one of 22 Dominican returnees who featured in Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return. In this book, Dr Shillingford, who was born in 1936, described his childhood in Roseau,...
Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica – in my capacity as a journalist – to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK...
ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her...
AND STILL THEY STAND… It’s refreshing when a review of a new book is imaginatively paired with another book, which could not – within the scope of the subject – be more different. In this case, Papillote Press’ Still Standing: the Ti Kais of Dominica...
