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Illustrated by
Ashley Bryan.
"Our Caribbean Creole speech had become established as 'Bad Talk,'" says Berry in a foreword to this fine collection of poems evoking his school years in 1930s Jamaica. The poet's sensitivity to different modes of English underlies his deft handling of the relationship between language and meaning. Bryan's graciously composed illustrations present the budding writer and friends in vibrant black and white. Ind.