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July 19, 2021
BDM is pleased to share comments on two incredible books for young readers and the young at heart.
In “An Inspirational and Universal Story for the Young,” Ketlie Camille reviews Olympic Hero: Lennox Kilgour’s Story by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy. This children’s book tells the story of the author’s father’s glorious march to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Camille draws life lessons from the beautifully illustrated book, which she read in English, and Kreyol–the language she learned while growing up in Haiti. Kilgour Dowdy’s Olympic Hero is probably the first children’s book translated from English into Haitian Kreyol. (The Kreyol version of the review will be published here next month.)
Carlyle Leach’s review of Nasser Khan’s History of West Indies Cricket Through Calypsoes underscores that cricket and the compelling lyrics of the calypso “engendered community pride” and facilitated West Indian togetherness both on the cricket field and beyond the boundary.
Read on and join the conversation around these two illuminating texts.
BDN Editors