Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories on Kindle!

Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories is now available on the Kindle, and for regular readers of my blog, here’s a heads up!

Starting tomorrow, Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories will be free until 10/6/21012.

Here’s a summary:

Jimmy Harrison loves school and his favorite subject is snack time! But when a new boy, Kevin, joins his class, he begins to pick on Jimmy and the rest of the children. What’s worse, he begins to take away Jimmy’s snacks. Jimmy doesn't want to be a tattletale, but he also doesn’t want to be bullied.

When Grandpa Sydney finds out that Jimmy is being bullied, he reads an Anancy story to Jimmy. Will the story help Jimmy to overcome Kevin's bullying?

My advice is to get up as early as possible, say 1:00 a.m. (EST), and head on over to Amazon get yourself a free copy of Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009JYLDZO

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Top Rated in Children's Bug & Spider Books: Marcus and the Amazons

Give thanks to all the friends who have bought, liked, and reviewed Marcus and the Amazons. Now let's see if we can move Marcus into the bestsellers list!

One Love,

Geoffrey 

Third Time by Geoffrey Philp @ Smashwords

Ebook Description

When Josh Harding, who is working as a sales clerk at a grocery store in Miami, agrees reluctantly to deliver groceries to his supervisor’s home, he begins a torrid romance with Liliana, his supervisor’s wife. His supervisor, Alvaro Guzman, besides being a known philanderer also has the reputation for his violent temper. How will Josh’s love affair end?

To buy Third Time, please follow this link: 

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/72702

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Book Review: Marcus and the Amazons

By Dr. Andrea Shaw @ Jamaicans. com

The story’s hero is Marcus, a courageous young Formica ant who has returned to his homeland to take a stand against the oppressive Amazon ants, who have enslaved his family and friends and abducted Amy, his beloved bride to be. Relying on new ideas he’s encountered while away as well as the power of community organizing, Marcus mounts a resistance to the Amazons.

The story makes obvious allusions to real life dissidents in various black nationalist and civil rights movements during the twentieth century. The main character’s name evokes Jamaican national hero Marcus Garvey, and the circumstances of the character Marcus’ enslavement suggests any number of (post)colonial moments of disenfranchisement and brutality. Yet Philp manages to shape a story that engages the imagination of both the young and young at heart.

For example, Marcus and the Amazons is peopled by an array of anthropomorphic characters, mainly ants portrayed with human characteristics, but also other creatures such as fireflies and spiders. The story features betrayal; a villainous contingency of Amazon ants, including the queen and her general; and the rescue of the fair maiden in distress. These characteristics make it easy to immediately dive into Marcus and the Amazons because of the familiar fictional territory in which the story is set. However, Philp manages to negotiate an effective conversation with an important and often ignored topic in children’s literature, enslavement and colonization, because of the painful history in which those occurrences are rooted.

Philp’s new book does an excellent job of providing a literary venue for children to learn a little about the oppression endemic to the postcolonial experience while holding their breath to see what happens next and being entertained. Furthermore, the images are a delightful characteristic of Philp’s book. Illustrated by Patrick Pollack, a young artist and family friend of Philp’s, Marcus and the Amazons boasts beautifully drawn images with vivid colors and memorably rendered characters.

For more please follow this link: Jamaicans.com

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Wordle of Marcus and the Amazons

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Book Giveaway: Marcus and the Amazons

Sheron Hamilton-Pearson and JamLink have given me a great idea to run another book giveaway. But this time, I want to include the kids, so I need at least three (3) writing prompts based on some of the themes in Marcus and the Amazons.

If you haven't read Marcus and the Amazons, here are some reviews (consider them to be like e-Cliff's Notes) that may give you some hints for the writing prompts:

http://amzn.to/m9DlFA

Rethabile Masilo of Poefrika has also written an extended review that may also help you to come up with a writing prompt: http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2011/07/marcus-and-amazons-by-geoffrey-philp.html

Finally, here is a list of the subjects covered in Marcus and the Amazons

Ants: etymology; food cultivation, cooperation and competition, relationships with other organisms, and myrmecophily

Black History Month

Civil Rights Movements

Caribbean American

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-Violence

Marcus Garvey

Friendship

Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

I'll be giving away  three (3) FREE Smashwords coupons (say that fast 3 times) for the three (3) winning prompts and you can enter as many prompts as you wish in the Comments section.

I know this should be a breeze, especially for the educators who are on summer vacation.

The Book Giveaway will run from July 1, 2011--July 9, 2011. I will be choosing the winners and the announcement will be posted on July 10, 2011.

The Kids Book Giveaway will run July 11, 2011—July 18, 2011.

Good Luck!

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New Book: "Blue Mountain Trouble" by Martin Mordecai

Martin Mordecai has written a novel, Blue Mountain Trouble, for readers between the ages of 9-12, and so far, the reviews have been glowing:

http://www.quillandquire.com/books_young/review.cfm?review_id=6474

clipped from carlbrandon.org The story begins with a bang. A pair of twins, walking down a mountain to their village school, encounter in the morning mist a vision of a huge, disembodied goat's head. The vision fades, and seconds later the ground in front of them trembles and slides away. Was the goat a malevolent presence, or did it save them from injury or worse? Already, the book is a grabber.

Anancy @ Lemon City Library

The children at the Lemon City Library were fantastic! I was privileged to be a part of the Black History Month celebration hosted by the Miami Dade Public Library System and I read from Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories on February 26, 2008.

The children asked questions about Jamaica, the books I had published, and my reasons for writing Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories. They also asked me about the mountains in Jamaica, and why at the end of the first chapter Grandpa Sydney was sad. I explained to them that like Grandpa Sydney, I missed the mountains of Jamaica where I grew up.

Give thanks to the Miami Dade Public Library System and the Lemon City Branch for inviting me to be a part of this year’s celebration. It really was a pleasure.

For more photos of this event, please follow this link: Anancy @ Lemon City Library-Flickr

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