Last week Saturday, I had the pleasure of reading Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories to the children at the Reading Learning Center at the North Campus of Miami Dade College

Anancy weaved his magic at the National Achievers Society's closing ceremony at Florida International University.

When I read from Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories at South Miami Heights Elementary last week Friday, it was almost like the at Kara's Jamaican & Chinese Restaurant.

Jamaican author, Geoffrey Philp, will be reading from his recently published children's book, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories on Sunday, September 9, 2007. The reading which begins at 12:00 noon will be held at Church of the Ascension, 11201 SW 160 th Street, Miami, FL 33157

If you’re not familiar with the name Geoffrey Philp, you should be.

Grandparent's Day is on September 9, 2007, and there's no better way to celebrate than to give your parental antecedents a copy of Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories.

The "Out Of Many One People" Celebration TM, a Caribbean Interactive play date held at Kara's Jamaican & Chinese Restaurant proved to be a great Jamaican cultural feast for Pembroke Pines families this past Saturday. On arrival, some kids looked as if they would have preferred Saturday morning cartoons. However, by the time the fun-filled play date finished they left with their tummies filled with Jamaican breakfast including ackee and salt fish courtesy of Kara's and, more important, sensitized with a cultural feast delivered by the Jamaica Folk Revue, led by Ms. Norma Darby and Jamaican author, Geoffrey Philp reading from "Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories". Many parents agreed it was a Saturday morning well spent with their children and friends in a great cultural interactive ambience. What a welcome break from Saturday morning cartoons!

First, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories is a gift to children and their families, especially the Caribbean-American children who don't have many books written about them. Here they are growing up in a landscape that neither they nor their parents can fully understand. The Caribbean-American identity a new frontier and nothing in the media have prepared them for this new reality. But what do we teach our children when we are trying to figure out the whole new array of options? What assumptions can we make? Should we make any assumptions? Let me explain.