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4 hours ago ago from Repeating Islands
Brown Sugar and Spice , a new children’s book that highlights Caribbean history, was launched today (December 15, 2009) in Trinidad. The book was written by Betty Peter and it targets 9 to 14-year-olds. With a great sense of humor and adventure, Brown Sugar and Spice explores colonial days, war (World War II), and illness as seen through the eyes of a young girl, Harriet. Toute Bagai Publishing (which produced the book) describes the ...
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