A Review of Shabine and Other Stories

HAZEL SIMMONS-MCDONALD is a Saint Lucian who has lived and worked in Barbados for over thirty years. She is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at the University of the West Indies and has published textbooks on language learning as well as several articles on educational issues in Creole and Creole-influenced vernacular contexts.  Although in retirement, she continues to do research in this field and also devotes time to creative writing.  

The Light of Dawn

Saint Lucian children's author Dawn French and her good friend Peanut.

 

AMONG THE JEWELS that make up the Caribbean archipelago is Saint Lucia—the Helen of the West—so called because, like Helen of Troy, it is very beautiful. It is also home of the famous Pitons and two Nobel laureates. It further boasts an imaginative and accomplished children’s author by the name of Dawn French who is the creator of the Peanut series, a collection of stories about a fictitious little girl nicknamed Peanut, whose actual name is Sabine Clementine James.