Pretty flowers in my country are for meLike pink butterfliesThat smile at the sun(Judes-Roldes)For several months, Quebec illustrator Roge prepared a series of portraits of Haitian children. Students of Camp Perrin wrote that accompanying poems, which create, with flowing consistency, Haiti My Country. These teenaged poets use the Haitian landscape as their easel. The nature that envelops them is quite clearly their main subject. While misery often storms through Haiti in the form of earthquakes, cyclones, or floods, these young men and women see their surrounding nature as assurance for a joyful, confident future.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.

There are 44 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Fifth House Publishers .

Roge has illustrated several previous children's picture books, including "Parents Do the Weirdest Things," "Elton the Elf," and "When Pigs Fly. "