For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleA good follow up to the first book. This one starts off right where the last one ended.I was glad to see new characters and situations in this one. It is a completely new adventure while continuing elements and themes found in the previous book. While ...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleAn interesting read filled with magic, adventure, and elements of Haitian folklore.As Baptiste points out in her Author's note, in comparison to European fairy tales, there are not a lot of Haitian folklore and jumbie fairy tales in mainstream literatu...
Audience: Middle Grade Format: Hardcover/Library Copy Corinne La Mer's heart beat like wild drums as she ran through the forest. - first sentence The Jumbies takes place on a Caribbean island and is based on Caribbean fairy tales. Everyone in the village avoids the forest, but Corinne doesn’...
If you love Uprooted and have a younger reader who isn't ready for it, may I suggest The Jumbies? Folktale fantasy adventure where a girl saves her friends and family from the darkness in the forest, but for ages 10-13. I liked this one quite a bit.
A really lovely middle grade fantasy, based on Haitian folklore. I loved the way Baptiste examines the intricacies of family, without leaving any easy conclusions. Corinne is a great protagonist, who makes mistakes but also cares about her father and her friends.
Fairy tales continue to be one of the cornerstones of my reading. The age that the story is written for doesn't matter. Give me a re-telling, or a classic, and I'll sit there wide-eyed and invested until the very end. So, it's not surprise that I picked up The Jumbies. I love reading folklore from d...
I received a free kindle copy of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste, published by Algonquin Young Readers from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. Written for grades three to five. While this is for young children, I gave this excellent book five stars. The Jumbies was inspired by the Haitian f...
Thirteen year old Grace and her younger sister Sally, spends a summer holiday with their grandmother in Trinidad. Pulled away from her New York home, she is left unhappy with no one to talk to. Whilst there, she finds a photo album. One picture is a blurred image of a man with an identical birthmark...
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