by James Berry · PENGUIN LONGMAN PUBL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582344075
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Discover three moving short stories by James Berry, winner of the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean. This Penguin Young Readers edition, level 4, is an adaptation of the original 1987 work and is designed for young readers. It includes the stories 'A Thief in the Village', 'Becky and the Wheel-and-Brake Boys' and 'The Banana Tree'.
James Berry, was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. Berry's writing often "explores the relationship between black and white communities and in particular, the excitement and tensions in the evolving relationship of the Caribbean immigrants with Britain and British society from the 1940s onwards". As the editor of two seminal anthologies, Bluefoot Traveller (1976) and News for Babylon (1984), he was in the forefront of championing West Indian/British writing.
