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BOOKS
Created: 14th August, 2015

J is for Jamaica

Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Illustrator: Prodeepta Das
Publisher: Frances Lincoln

One of a series of photographic alphabet books which began with Ifeoma Onyefulu’s A is for Africa. Here the poet Benjamin Zephaniah introduces readers to the country from where his family came. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a photograph encapsulated in four line verses in rhyming couplets. The poetry and photos range over a variety of aspects of Jamaican life, including the wildlife, the food and social life.