tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197499002011-04-21T20:44:32.323-07:00SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19749900.post-1134230596346703892006-12-25T07:58:00.000-08:002005-12-16T01:48:49.166-08:00.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Joanne Johnson</strong></span><br /><div align="justify">.<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7806/1956/400/ibis_stew_new.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">illustrations by <a href="http://scbwi-caribbeansouth-illustrators.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Katie McConnachie</span></a></span></div><div align="justify">.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong><span style="color:#6666cc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Born and Bred in Trinidad, Joanne is a television producer and published author of Caribbean children's books. She freelances in advertising andwrites for She Caribbean magazine.<br />Joanne is often involved in a variety of creative projects. She has acted for both stage and television and enjoys writing and performing her own brand of rapso, an indigenous spoken word art form.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/jo%20face.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/200/jo%20face.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/jo%20face.jpg"></a></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong>Titles Published</strong>:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">*</span></strong> Ibis Stew? Oh no!'</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">*</span></strong> Digger's Diner</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">*</span></strong> Sally's Way</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>*</strong> </span>The Scottish Island Girl</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>*</strong> </span>Go Barefoot</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#6666cc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"><strong>website: <a href="http://www.caribbeanchildren.com"><span style="color:#ff0000;">http://www.caribbeanchildren.com</span></a></strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">email: <a href="mailto:joanne@caribbeanchildren.com"><span style="color:#ff0000;">joanne@caribbeanchildren.com</span></a></span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19749900-113423059634670389?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-meethewriter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19749900.post-1134725372455225752005-12-16T01:24:00.000-08:002006-06-17T05:30:53.160-07:00<div align="justify"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Debbie Jacob<br /></div><p></strong></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/debbiejacob_legend.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/400/debbiejacob_legend.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">Debbie Jacob is a journalist who teaches English and the Media and Ancient World history at The International School of Port of Spain. She earned a BA in Anthropology from Ohio State University and an MEd from Framingham State College in Massachusetts. She has a weekly education column in the Guardian and she is currently completing a BA in history at OSU while working on an MPhil in Cultural Studies at UWI. She wrote the pioneering TV drama Sugar Cane Arrows. Although she was born in the US, she considers herself to be a true-true Trini.</span> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/debbie.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/200/debbie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#6666cc;">.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong>Titles Published:</strong><br />*Legend of the St Ann's Flood</span> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19749900-113472537245522575?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-meethewriter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19749900.post-1134725016991313862005-12-16T01:16:00.000-08:002005-12-16T02:03:48.783-08:00<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Andy Campbell</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/grommit_cover.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/400/grommit_cover.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">illustrations by </span><a href="http://scbwi-caribbeansouth-illustrators.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">Vanessa Soodeen</span></a> </span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#6666cc;">Born In Trinidad in 1945 and educated in Trinidad and England, Andy qualified as a commercial pilot in the UK, joined BWIA in 1966 and recently retired after 39 years.<br />He enjoyed telling stories to both sons and their friends throughout their childhood. Inspired by their enthusiasm and no longer having an audience once they had grown up, he started writing. Andy first self-published “Stories from the Cockpit” in 2001. It contained three short stories, with artwork and photographs from various sources, including some illustrations of his own. Some time after, Macmillan Caribbean purchased the rights to all three stories and have recently published their first, “Grommit the Vulture”.</span> </span></p><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><strong>Titles Published:<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/andycampbell_grommit.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 168px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px" height="119" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/200/andycampbell_grommit.jpg" width="168" border="0" /></a></strong></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">Grommit the Vulture</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">Stories from the Cockpit</span></span></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19749900-113472501699131386?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-meethewriter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19749900.post-1134727232654739952005-12-14T01:53:00.000-08:002005-12-16T02:08:41.906-08:00<strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;">Lynette Comissiong</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span> </span><br /><p><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/lynettecom_alligators.1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/400/lynettecom_alligators.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">illustrations by Rachel Parker<br /></span><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/1600/lynette_commissiong.1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="131" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3248/1961/200/lynette_commissiong.1.jpg" width="181" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;">Published Trinidadian Author<br /><br /><strong>Titles Published:</strong> </p></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">*</span> How Alligators Got Rough Skin</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">* </span>The Parrots and Papa Bois</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6666cc;"><p><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19749900-113472723265473995?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-meethewriter.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.com1