How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? In the case of the narrator of this counting poem, the answer is a lot! Count from one to ten and learn the names of some Caribbean fruits, and find out what happens after eating a cocktail of mangoes, bananas and more.
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Valerie Bloom was born in Jamaica and came to England in 1979. The Caribbean remains a strong influence on her work. She has conducted lots of writing and performance workshops in schools and colleges and has performed widely in Britain and the Caribbean. Her poems have been included in over two hundred anthologies, in the National Curriculum and have appear
More about Valerie BloomDavid Axtell is a graduate of Falmouth School of Art and Design and has been an illustrator for 15 years. Originally inspired by figurative art, he has since become an award winning illustrator and has illustrated picture books by well-known writers, such as, Mark Haddon's The Ice Bear's Cave . He won a Smarties Prize Bronze Award for illustrating
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