PROLOGUE
December 1992
The background of this children’s book has a distinctive Caribbean flare. Remembrance of Christmas opens windows on different cultures and their similarities. The comparable backgrounds I feel children the world over can relate to and also adults. Remembrance of Christmas narrative was drawn from memorable episodes of the Christmas season in my life “as a child growing up” in Guyana, South America and Ghana, West Africa.
My desire to write about the joys of Christmas was ironically triggered by a feeling of sadness.
It was close to Christmas day I was far from home in New York, and I had not received a Christmas card from my son who then lived in Guyana. It was a cold day the snow had fallen all night and into the morning. I was on my way to work and had just missed the bus; all I could do was stand and lament. Then it slowly dawned on me I had to snap out of this feeling of sadness before it affected my new loving family. Hence the idea for Remembrance of Christmas was born.
The truth became apparent to me when I had my new, lovely, then nine years old daughter, Deanna, read this script. She totally enjoyed the script, she even laughed. She then encouraged her teenage brother Marlon to read the script. His response was a wide smile. He also enjoyed the script. I have since had this children story adapted and “performed” as a play by my local church in Brooklyn. The play was well received by a multicultural congregation with much acclaim.
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