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OverviewA collection of short stories dealing with a variety of topics - snobbery at school, friendship between children, the death of a criminal, a haunted house. A glossary of terms and a note on the authors is also given. This edition has been revised. Horizons is a series specifically written for readers aged 11 to 14 in the Caribbean. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Velma Pollard , Jean D'Costa , J. D'CostaPublisher: Hodder Education Imprint: Pearson Education Limited Edition: 1st Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 12.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 18.60cm Weight: 0.216kg ISBN: 9780582225800ISBN 10: 0582225809 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 07 February 1994 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Educational: Primary & Secondary Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJean Constantine D'Costa, storywriter, critic and teacher was born in January 1937 in Jamaica. She attended St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's High Schools and later studied at the University of West Indies. Later, she would pursue further studies at Oxford and Indiana Universities of West Indies and Hamilton College in the USA. As Professor of English at Hamilton College 1980-1989, she taught English 200, Creative Writing, The Tortured Sensibility, Old English, History of the English Language and Major Caribbean Writers. D'Costa is also a well-established writer of children's books. Sprat Morrison, her first novel, captures the Jamaican atmosphere and speech rhythms with great precision and insight. Sprat Morrison has found a special place in Jamaican schools' curriculum and is used as prescribed text in literature in many high schools. Her work in linguistics, especially on Jamaican Creole, is also well known. Language in Exile, a work she co-authored with Barbara Lalla, tries to recapture the Creole speech of early Jamaican society by analyzing rare, 18th and 19th century documents in their sociohistorical context. D'Costa has also copy-edited a number of books for the University Press of the University of the West Indies, as well as a historical novel of film maker Perry Henzell's, The Harder They Come which was written by Michael Thelwell. For many years she continued to write fiction and poetry for adults, adolescents and children. Jean D'Costa is now retired and lives in Weston, Florida. Velma Pollard was born in Jamaica in 1937, educated at Excelsior High School in Kingston and at the University College of the West Indies. She received an MA in Education from McGill University and an MA in the teaching of English from Columbia University. She taught in high schools and universities in Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and the USA. Since 1975 she has taught at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Language Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of the West Indies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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