Today is World Book day in the UK and Ireland. This year the emphasis is on children’s literature and as The Guardian reports:

To celebrate World Book Day, the education centre invited children from Blessed Sacrament and Copenhagen primary schools to meet three famous children's authors, who entertained the year 3 and 4 groups with extracts from their books and answered questions about their experiences as writers of children's fiction.

In anticipation of the real World Book Day (LOL), I'm posting a partial list of children’s authors and publishers from the Caribbean in the hope that it may spark a similar response in the region:

Joanne C. Hillhouse
http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2009/10/joanne-c-hillhouse-musings-on-boy.html

Joanne Gail Johnson
http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/pink-carnival-a-new-book-by-joanne-gail-johnson/


Dany Laferrière:
http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-bookla-fete-des-morts-by-dany.html

Martin Mordecai
http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-my-own-words-martin-mordecai.html

Kelly Magnus:
http://www.yardedge.net/interviews/yardedge-talks-to-kellie-magnus-about-her-new-book

Geoffrey Philp
http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/search/label/Grandpa%20Sydney%27s%20Anancy%20Stories



Students from the Atkinson Primary School: The Snake King of the Kalinago
http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/the-snake-king-of-the-kalinago-dominicas-kalinago-children-celebrate-their-culture/


Papillote Press
http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/an-interview-with-polly-pattullo-of-papillote-press/


Peepal Tree Press:

John Siddique
Don't Wear it on Your Head, Don't Stick it Down Your Pants: Poems for Young People



Janet Jagan
Anastasia the Anteater and other stories

Janet Jagan
Patricia the Baby Manatee and other stories


 Janet Jagan
When Grandpa Cheddi was a Boy

Vishnu Gosine
The Coming of Lights



Macmillan
This is more YA:

http://caribbeanbookblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/macmillan-%E2%80%98island-fiction%E2%80%99-series-helps-kids-rediscover-the-joy-of-reading/

I know I have left several publishers off the list--authors and publishers from the Hispanic, Dutch, Portuguese and French-speaking Caribbean. This is not due to bad mind or malfeasance.

If I have left any author or publisher off the list, feel free to add your name or company to the list in the comments.