Caribbean Storytime with Yolanda Marshall

Caribbean Storytime with Yolanda Marshall

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  • Julie Thompson

    Julie Thompson has worked with children and youth for over 25 years. After experiencing a change in her family's life Julie turned to literature to help support her youngest through this challenging time. Unable to find a book that addressed her son's concern, Julie decided to write the book herself. Timeless Love is the first book of a series Julie plans on creating in hopes of addressing many of the everyday, and some of the larger, issues marginalized and racialized individuals experience. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her children.

    Purchase "Timeless Love" on Amazon.ca

    24 min
  • Juleus Ghunta ~ Scholar, ACE Advocate, Award winning Poet and Author.

    Juleus Ghunta is a Chevening Scholar, children's writer, and an advocate in Jamaica's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) movement. He holds an MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK, and a BA in Media from UWI, Mona. His poems and essays on ACEs have appeared in 30 journals across 15 countries. In 2020, he received a CATAPULT Caribbean Creative Online grant to further his work on ACEs. He was awarded the Catherine James Poetry Prize by Interviewing the Caribbean (IC) in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Small Axe Poetry Prize in 2015 and 2016. His picture book Tata and the Big Bad Bull was published by CaribbeanReads (CR) in May 2018 and launched in June 2018 at Bradford Literature Festival, UK. His second book, Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows is forthcoming from CR. He is the co-editor of the December 2019 and March 2020 issues of IC Journal (UWI Press), which are focused on Caribbean children's and young adult literature.

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    Purchase children's book,  "Tata and the Big Bad Bull" here - Amazon.ca or Amazon.com

    38 min
  • Eleanor P. Sam
    Eleanor is Canadian, born in Guyana, South America with West African ancestry. She is keenly interested in her cultural and historical heritage, in young women's empowerment and in Black women's health. Eleanor lives in Toronto with her husband. The Wisdom of Rain is her first novel. The Wisdom of Rain is a sweeping tale of tragedy, loss, and inhumanity, but it is also a story of courage, love, and spirituality. It shows how these qualities can transcend and defeat servitude and suffering in the most trying circumstances. It is a novel that treasures and restores the past, breathing life into a forgotten time and place and revealing its hidden pathways to the present.
    Purchase "The Wisdom of Rain" Amazon.ca or Amazon.com www.EleanorPSam.ca
    17 min
  • Reading with Miles ~ “Sweet Sorrel Stand”
    “Sweet Sorrel Stand” by Yolanda T. Marshall. In this children's book, Rose and Nicolas loved their favourite Caribbean sorrel drink so much, the siblings decided to create a sorrel stand with the assistance of their parents. Their Sweet Sorrel Stand was a success in the neighbourhood. The main ingredient of the drink is the Roselle plant (Sorrel), a species of hibiscus which is native to West Africa. The red flower buds are boiled, strained, sweetened with sugar, with a touch of ginger, cinnamon, orange peel and cloves. Once cooled for a couple of hours or overnight, it is served with ice. It is known to be very rich in antioxidants. Traditionally, this drink is served during Christmas holidays. On a hot summer day, it is a refreshing alternative to lemonade.
    8 min
  • Janiece McIntosh ~ Author, Entrepreneur and Female Warrior
    Janiece McIntosh is the mother of four and CEO of Fabu Phit, which offers clients a space to heal, recover, rebuild and increase vitality, focus and energy through training, programs, workshops and retreats. They provide health, wellness and fitness programs that focus on mental wellness and healing. Fabu Phit’s exclusive tailored programming provides women with the luxury of a personal Holistic Health & Fitness Wellness Spas. FABU PHIT can be done 1 of 4 ways for your convenience (personal training in your home, via Skype, through Internet subscription to our website and in studio) with flexible, book your own session(s), extended hours for Internet and Skype sessions
    Website:- https://fabuphit.ca
    Location:  416 Willowdale Ave, Toronto.  Operating Hours Monday – Friday 10 am – 3 pm & Sundays 11 am – 2 pm.
    Upcoming Book Signing event - Meet the Author at Chapters Indigo in Ajax. 3175 HWY 7, Markham, ON, L3R 0T9, 12pm - 6pm
    About the book:-
    "The Untold Story of a Drug Dealer’s Baby Mother" written by Shiloh Justice (Janiece McIntosh). Set in the underbelly of Torontonian society is an underground ecosystem that parallels mainstream culture, The Untold Story of a Drug Dealer's Baby Mother follows the lives of Maya and her drug dealing baby father, Quinton (aka Q). As the two of them face challenges that stem from generational parental abandonment, drug use, domestic violence and infidelity they try to forge a life for themselves that they both are proud of. 
    Purchase on Amazon:- https://www.amazon.ca/Untold-Story-Drug-Dealers-Mother-ebook/dp/B076Y7TGTM
    More on the book:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QViEG2OTIo8
    Facebook:- https://www.facebook.com/shilohsjustice/
    Instagram: @fabuphit
    11 min

About Caribbean Storytime with Yolanda Marshall

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Welcome to Caribbean Storytime with your host Yolanda Marshall. Tune into various discussions about our beautiful culture, books, Authors, recipes and everything Caribbean. Your children will enjoy reading with Miles, on Caribbean Storytime.