When Melba oversleeps and misses her ride to town, she is worried she will miss Carnival, but when she finds a new way to the festivities, she collects her own parade of friends and discovers that the real celebration is the love that surrounds her.
"Vini! Come! The field calls!" cries a girl as she and her younger brother rouse their community---family, friends, and the local fruit vendor---for a pickup futbol game.
A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author, including the title work which is an elegy to his mother, and featuring a series of poems evokative of St. Lucia, the island of his birth.
Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, environment, culture, religion, language, and food of Saint Lucia.
When Grandpa, a traditional fisherman, is forced from his livelihood because increasingly efficient technology has depleted his island's supply of fish, he creates an ecologically sound solution by starting a sea moss farm.
