Juanita Havill - Jamaica's Find

Pros: Helps children work through a difficult decision
Cons: None

When working in a preschool, I was required as a teacher to provide multi-cultural books from the public library for my children to read. When browsing through the library one week, I was lucky enough to find the book "Jamaica's Find" by Juanita Havill....

Pros: Still a worthwhile picture book read after all this time.
Cons: A couple outdated 1980s images and terms. Them's the breaks.

You might think that now that we live in such a culturally aware new millennium that our bookstore shelves would be fair flooded with an array of well-written picture books starring African-American children. But take a turn in your local independent ...

Pros: Great message packed into a cute children's story.
Cons: none

The children’s book, Jamaica’s Find, is a heartwarming story of friendship and honesty. It has been featured on the PBS series, Reading Rainbow, and also received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1987. I don’t know very much about...