A review by academianut
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice by Nadia Hohn

4.0

I remember as a first-year ESOL teacher, I had two students who spoke beautiful Jamaican Patois, but try as I might, I could not find a book that represented their language or culture! But this year at ALA, I finally found one: A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverly Found Her Voice, by Nadia L. Hohn, an #OwnVoices author. This book celebrates the beauty of Jamaican language and its poetry, and the bravery of Coverly, who even as a child went beyond the box of the Standard English taught in schools and created poems in vibrant patois that delighted and connected her listeners and readers to each other. This children's biography is a great mirror for Jamaican students and window for kids of all other cultures!