The Wooing of Beppo Tate is a lively and popular account of life in Kendal, a small village in Jamaica, similar to the author's own childhood home.

The Wooing of Beppo Tate

Children's Books

Palmer, C. Everard

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

It is the start of a new school year in Kendal, Jamaica, and Josh is determined not to be late. He sets off in good time - but so does his beloved bull-calf, Boy, who follows him everywhere like a dog. Josh's teacher is horrified to see Boy in the classroom but Josh manages to turn the situation to good advantage - until things start to go badly wrong. When the headmaster tells Josh's mother the story of Boy's disastrous visit to school she insists that the calf is sold at once. The local storeman buys him in spite of Josh's protests, driving a hard bargain. But Josh is a fighter; he organises his schoolfriends to mount first a demonstration and then a hunger strike in his campaign to get Boy back. The villagers, hostile at first, are soon on his side. Before long the embarrassed storeman realises that he has not been as clever as he thought. Laszlo Ac's sensitive and lively drawings add to the pleasure of this book. The revised editions include new supplementary material including chapter summaries, an exploration of the book's major themes and post-reading comprehension activities.

A Cow Called Boy

Teen & Young Adult

Macmillan Caribbean

Sun-Sun Johnson enjoys life. He has enjoyed starting at the bottom and working hard to become the biggest landowner in the village. He enjoys being married to an elegant, out-of-the-ordinary woman, and he loves his three children. But he doesn't enjoy keeping up a position; he can't be bothered to be dignified or to keep a look out for scroungers - he aims to be generous, whatever the cost. The cost proves to be the loss of his fortune, his home, and his wife to his greatest rival. Only his eldest son, Rami, remains faithful, and together they start again, from the bottom. Set, like all Everard Palmer's previous stories, in Jamaica, this book combines an irresistible gaiety of style with a sensitive understanding of the relationship between a father and son. The revised editions include new supplementary material including chapter summaries, an exploration of the book's major themes and post-reading comprehension activities.

My Father, Sun-Sun Johnson

The Wooing of Beppo Tate is an account of life in Kendal, a small village in Jamaica, similar to the author's own childhood home.

The wooing of Beppo Tate

Deutsch

Baba and Mr. Big

Carlton Books, Limited

A dog called Houdini

World Literature

Houdini's a super dog. Nobody will ever catch him! Red O'Malley secretly admires the wily dog who has created trouble ever since he cem to town. But his father, the dog-catcher, has been outsmarted by Houdini once too often....and is determined to put an end to him once and for all! The touching story of a clever mutt and the boy who risked his life to save him.

A Dog Called Houdini

Scholastic Canada, Limited

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