Sint Maarten · Caribbean
Stories from our ancestors, made for young hearts.
Read folk tales of courage, play games that remember, and learn the names of the people who carried our history across the sea.
Storybook
What shall we read today?
01Sint Maarten
One Tété Lohkay
The woman who could not be broken
8 min read
02West Africa → Caribbean
Anansi and the Sea
How a clever spider carried hope across the water
7 min read
03Caribbean
Grandmother's Song
A lullaby that traveled the ocean
6 min read- 04
Curaçao
Tula's Promise
The teacher who led a march for freedom
7 min read - 05
Sint Maarten
The Salt Pickers of Great Bay
White gold and tired hands
6 min read - 06
Caribbean
Drums in the Hills
The rhythm that could not be silenced
6 min read - 07
Jamaica
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
The warrior grandmother of Jamaica
7 min read - 08
Caribbean
The Silk Cotton Tree
The tree that remembers everything
6 min read - 09
Caribbean (Taíno & Kalinago)
The Cassava Lesson
A gift from the first islanders
6 min read - 10
Sint Maarten
The Lantern Keepers
A light passed from hand to hand
5 min read - 11
Sint Maarten & the Dutch Caribbean
The Freedom Bell
The morning slavery ended
6 min read - 12
French Caribbean
Compère Lapin and the Well
How a small rabbit tricked a giant problem
6 min read - 13
Sint Maarten / Saint-Martin
The Island of Two Flags
How Sint Maarten and Saint-Martin became one family
6 min read
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