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Talking With Children’s Book Award Winning Writer Cristina Kessler
March 25, 2024--Interview by John Coyne, Peace Corps Volunteer (Ethiopia 1962–64) Cristina Kessler...
Books donated to the Children’s Museum of St. Croix
Three kids, Zion, Jasmine and Riley enjoying reading the set of books I donated to The Children’s...
Hope is Here! Top Honors winner for the Lumen Award, given for “excellence in nonfiction for young readers.”
For Immediate Release Children’s Literary Classics...
Hope is Here! by Cristina Kessler, earns the Children’s Literary Classics Seal of Approval
“I am excited and proud to share this good news with all my family and friends. I received it...
First-ever SKYPE Visiting Author presentations with Colegio International Puerto la Cruz in Venezuela
On April 3 and 4, 2014 Cristina participated in her first-ever SKYPE “Visiting Author”...
Field biologist Fletcher Smith visited the Virgin Islands as the Celebrity Scientist with the UVI program EPSCoR
“I wanted the students to meet a scientist who loves what he does, who is really excited about his...
EPSCoR has embraced HOPE IS HERE!
It is exciting to announce that EPSCoR has embraced HOPE IS HERE! by placing a large order to...
Encouraging kids in Zambia to read with The Lubuto Library Partners
Thanks to my friend and retired librarian, Betty Story, my books will now be read by kids in...
Cristina Kessler’s My Great-Grandmother’s Gourd on A Season’s Griot 2013 WHQR Storytelling by Joyce Grear
I am very proud and honored that My Great-Grandmother’s Gourd was featured on A Season’s Griot, a...
Creative Writing Competition 2011
For this year’s competition, CONCERN asked their writers to imagine themselves as a journalist,...
Chats about Hats, St. John School of the Arts
2015 has proven to be a very exciting year, as I ventured into new projects. In cooperation with...
Celebrating Sue Anne’s life
That we love and respect and treasure. That’s what Sue Anne Cook meant to me. Our friendship goes...
Author-in-Residence, St. John, Virgin Islands (2010-2011)
During the 2010-2011 school year I was the Author-in-Residence at the Julius E. Sprauve School in...
Another Magical Evening was another magical success
Dear Friends, Thanks to all of you, Another Magical Evening was another magical success. We raised...
Another Magical Evening once again demonstrated the generosity of the folks on St. John
Another Magical Evening once again demonstrated the generosity of the folks on St. John. The...
An Afterword’s Afterword
Ten days after finishing my memoir, Tales of an Ikut Swami, all hell broke loose in St. John and...