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by Margo Thomas (Editor), Clifford Ulmer (Illustrator), Lynette M. Hepburn-Sinclair (Author)
Netty's Junkanoo Christmas is a story about a girl growing up in the islands of The Bahamas. Children of the Bahamas celebrate the Christmas Holidays different from most children around the world. Netty's favorite tradition is a yearly street parade called Junkanoo, where participants wear colorful costumes, and dance to the hypnotic sounds of goat skin drums, brass instruments, whistles and cowbells. (No pictures)
Author Biography
Lynette Hepburn-Sinclair was born in Baintown, Nassau, The Bahamas. She spent her early years in Nassau and Freeport and currently resides in Valdosta, Georgia. Lynette is extremely proud of her culture and believes that through oral stories history is recorded and memories are kept alive. She credits these ideals as the inspiration for this book. Lynette holds an Associate of Arts in Business Administration from Success Training College, Freeport, The Bahamas. A Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Masters of Public Administration from Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Higher Education Leadership. She is the daughter of Arlene Ellis and James Sinclair, Naaman Ellis and her adopted mother Andrea Johnson-Pompey. She has three daughters Le'andria Ray, Cidavia and L'Tazia Hepburn and granddaughter, Ke'Mani Bivens, to whom 'Netty's Junkanoo Christmas' is dedicated.
