Books by Curdella Forbes

Curdella Forbes grew up in a small village in rural Jamaica, where there was a strong oral storytelling tradition. She says, "From very early on I had stories coming out of my ears, long before I was old enough to discover them in books." Now a teacher of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Curdella lives in Kingston with her niece and an itinerant cat named The Wild One. She says of Flying With Icarus, "It is a book about how the everyday world is full of magical things, but you have to have special eyes to see them. Children usually do."