Description - Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice by Nadia L Hohn
A picture book biography of the Jamaican poet Miss Lou Jamaican poet and entertainer Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as "Miss Lou," played an instrumental role in popularising Jamaican patois internationally. Through her art, Miss Lou helped pave the way for other poets and singers, like Bob Marley, to use patois in their work. This picture book biography tells the story of Miss Lou's early years, when she was a young girl who loved poetry but felt caught between writing "lines of words like tight cornrows" or words that beat "in time with her heart." Despite criticism from one teacher, Louise finds a way to weave the influence of the music, voices, and rhythms of her surroundings into her poems. A vibrant, colorful, and immersive look at an important figure in Jamaica's cultural history, this is also a universal story of a child finding and trusting her own voice. End matter includes a glossary of Jamaican patois terms, a note about the author's "own voice" perspective, and a brief biography of Miss Lou and her connection to Canada, where she spent 20 years of her life. AGES: 4 to 8 AUTHOR: Nadia Hohn is a classroom teacher, presenter, and award-winning author of the picture books Malaika's Costume and Malaika's Winter Carnival. Named by CBC as one of the top Black Canadian Writers to Watch in 2018, Nadia holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and OISE. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. SELLING POINTS: . Publishing for the 100th anniversary of Miss Lou's birth in September 2019 . Written by teacher and award winner Nadia Hohn, author of Malaika's Costume and Malaika's Winter Carnival . Celebrates the beauty in diversity . Strong Canadian connection, as Miss Lou spent the last 20 years of her life in Canada
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