These 16 stories doing a great job of conveying the wealth of storytelling traditions in the Caribbean, including important African stories that have taken on new forms in these different Caribbean communities: The Sun and the Moon (Cuba) ~ Juan Bobo Goes to Market (Puerto Rico) ~ Getting Common Sense (Jamaica) ~ The Bat (Taino) ~ Fruit Trees (Carib) ~ Eshu's Hat (Cuba) ~ Bouki Rents a Horse (Haiti) ~ Mancrow (Jamaica) ~ Olofi Splits the Difference (Cuba) ~ Timbo Limbo (Jamaica) ~ Tio Conejo wants to be BIG (Cuba) ~ The Lucky Pot (Guyana) ~ Touloulou Takes a Ride (Haiti) ~ Oshún Lures Ogún from the Forest (Cuba) ~ The Magic Orange Tree (Haiti) ~ How El Bizarrón Fooled the Devil (Cuba).
There are illustrations too, and I think they are by Shyam Sunder (who is credit with the book's cover design). Here is the illustration for the Tio Conejo story from Cuba, which is the classic African tale of "Trickster Seeks Endowments," told here about the trickster rabbit:
The back of the book lists the rest of the Heritage Series from SunZone publishers, and I will be keeping an eye out to see if any of these do make their way to the Internet Archive; it would be great to see any/all of them here!
Meanwhile, these classic Caribbean stories await you, just a click away at the Internet Archive, thanks to Controlled Digital Lending:
retold by Al Campbell
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