I don't think Frane Lessac ever went to art college; the charms of her paintings are of the lack of perspective and the fabulous, but very Caribbean, colours. She lived on Montserrat for a while and caught the rhythm of the life and the delightful, neat little wooden buildings. I used to go there quite a lot before the Soufriere Hills volcano covered a lot of the island in dust. Its all concrete now; no-one rebuilds the little wooden houses with red hip roofs. ( )

This would be a great book to share with third through fifth graders. I don’t believe they would be able to understand the dialect on their own. This book would be a great demonstration of poetry from a different culture. ( )