Bridge Foundation Newsletter READ FOR THE RECORD DAY, NEWSLETTER, 2014 | Page 2

READ FOR THE RECORD DAY, 2014 READ TO RISE, SPONSORED BY
BGTT | Issue 5
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Bridge promotes Creative
Expressions through Once Upon a
Caribbean Folktales Narrated by
Sonja Dumas & Albert Laveau
Stories in Once Upon a
Caribbean Time were viewed as
a perfect complement to
Jumpstart selected books
which would inspire children
to embrace their Caribbean
roots through the collection of
Caribbean folktales. Schools through-out
Trinidad received the CD and a written
compilation of the CD stories.
Folktale stories creatively introduce
traditional characters and cool twists on new
characters. The CD folktales take you east of
somewhere, south of elsewhere to a place
where a little spider named Anansi, a blue Crab
named Dan and a caterpillar named Indra
could frolic in the sea and sun of a child's
imagination.
ABOUT SONJA DUMAS
Trinidad and Tobago storyteller Sonja Dumas
is an arts consultant living and working in
Trinidad. She also performs as a dancer and
storyteller and choreographs for several
groups and individuals. She integrates
filmmaking with her choreographic works and
has written, directed and produced or co-
produced six experimental dance film shorts
to date She is also the founder and artistic
director of the Continuum Dance Project and
is a consultant to the dance programme at
Academy for the Performing Arts at the
University of Trinidad and Tobago, where she
lectures in dance and performance studies.
Sonja has begun to produce films which
document the history of Caribbean dance or
use dancers to tell the story.
SCHOOL RESPONSES : “
Pupils and adults were elated with “folktales.” “Looking forward to more folktales
next year.” St. Andrews Private School
They fell in love with the stories.” Curepe Presbyterian School
Author of Jumpstart selected
book, Bunny Cakes Rosemary Wells
Special Author
Rosemary Wells has illustrated and written
children's books since 1968 and her career as
an author and illustrator spans more than 40
years and 120 books.
Rosemary Wells was born in New York City
and raised on the New Jersey shore. She
grew up in a home that was always filled
with books, dogs & classical music. She
spent a lot of time with animals, horses, and
dogs and going on special trips to the
theater and museums in New York City.
She has won numerous awards, and has
shared unforgettable characters such as
Max and Ruby, Noisy Nora, and Yoko and
with new additions of Mother Goose
created an unforgettable world in
Voyage to the Bunny Planet.
She is the recipient of the Edgar Allan
Poe Award for her YA mystery books as
well as the author/illustrator of popular
books for younger audiences such as
Voyage to the Bunny Planet (Dial), My
Very First Mother Goose (Candlewick)
and My Kindergarden (Hyperion).
The story Bunny Cakes is a comical
story of sibling bonding and birthday
shenanigans. It's Grandma's birthday, and
both Max and his bossy sister Ruby are
making her a cake. Ruby's cake will be a
magnificent angel raspberry-fluff creation
while Max plans to create a cake chock-full
of earthworms and Red-Hot Marshmallow
Squirters.
Abbreviated List of Rosemary Wells Published Books
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Noisy Nora, Max’s Chocolate Chicken, McDuff Moves On, Emily First, 100 days in school
Morris’ disappearing buy , Voyage to the Bunny Planet and Max’s Birthday and many more...