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Activity Sheets for Good Night My Sweet Island

Activity Sheets – Exclusive bumper pack of 16 activities, through the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Program 2024 for Good Night My Sweet Island.

Looking for Cazabon By Lawrence Scott

Jul 1, 2024

Lawrence Scott’s Looking for Cazabon, reflects on the watercolours and the sites of the 19th-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon.

Summer Reading Challenge

Jun 10, 2024

We’re delighted that Good Night My Sweet Island, our new children’s picture book by Petrea Honychurch Seaman and illustrated by Susanne Heitz has been chosen by the UK’s Reading Agency as one of only 25 picture books for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Remembering Clayton Shillingford

Jun 6, 2024

Dr Clayton Shillingford, who sadly died last month, was one of 22 Dominican returnees who featured in Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return.

First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Feb 6, 2024

Forty years ago I first visited Dominica to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK newspaper.

Elma Napier Remembered

Nov 27, 2023

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.

And Still They Stand

Nov 20, 2023

Blog Post about two reviews of Papillote Press’ Still Standing: the Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene Heron, with photographs by Marica Honychurch.

My Ti Kai, My Home

Jan 23, 2023

Olive Bell remembers life in a ti kai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. She collaborated on the making of ‘Still Standing” The ti kai of Dominica.