JUANITA HAVILL is an American children's picture book author best known for the Jamaica books. She has also written a young adult novel, Eyes Like Willy's. She lives in Arizona. ANNE SIBLEY O'BRIEN has illustrated more than thirty-three books for children, including the Jamaica stories. She lives on an island in Maine with her husband.
"Children Jamaica's age, struggling with the concepts of right and wrong, will undoubtedly find Jamaica's moral dilemma of great interest." Publishers Weekly --
"Children Jamaica's age, struggling with the concepts of right and wrong, will undoubtedly find Jamaica's moral dilemma of great interest." Publishers Weekly --
K-Gr 2 A picture book lesson in the ethics of returning lost items. When Jamaica, a young black girl, finds a hat and a stuffed dog in the playground, she returns the hatbut not the dogto the lost and found office. After her family reminds her that the dog was probably lost by a little girl just like her, she reconsiders and turns in the dog. Jamaica's final find is the little white girl who lost the dog, and it looks as if the two will become friends. Not much story here, and neither the text nor the muted watercolors, which sometimes appear to be muddy, rises above the pedestrian. Yet Havill does address a situation common to many children, and her lesson, offered as it is from within the warm arms of a loving family, is painless. David Gale, ``School Library Journal''
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