COME ON INTO MY TROPICAL GARDEN: Poems for Children

by Grace Nichols ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 25, 1990

The Guyana-born winner of the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize offers her first collection of poems for children, evoking her native country in graceful cadences and usually comprehensible dialect that will occasionally be best understood aloud (""Me mudder pound plantain mek fufu/Me mudder catch crab reek calaloo stew""). Exquisitely detailed soft-pencil drawings extend the quiet incidents, gentle insights, and pungent portraits. A welcome new voice.

Pub Date: March 25, 1990

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 40

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 1990

Categories: CHILDREN'S