SILLY NOMADS
MEET MARCUS
Kate Santee (illustrator), Janet L. Lewis Zelesnikar (Co-founder), Marcus E. Mohalland
Would you tell our readers about how In Palmerston Close, I lived with my
your childhood memories turned into brother, sister and father, just as my
the wonderful books SILLY character, Suhcrom, does in the Silly
NOMADS? Nomads series. The names of the
I grew up in Palmerston Close, a main characters Naddih, Enomih and
small neighborhood in the town of Jomfeh were taken from real names
Portsmouth on the island of Jamaica. of my family members.
Although we lived in some of the
poorest neighborhoods on the island, Would you share one of your
my childhood was filled with rich favourite stories which depict life in
memories of family, food, and Jamaica?
adventure. Living in Palmerston Close was
I’m grateful for my upbringing on the awesome! There were lots of kids my
island. There was a true sense of age and we played some of my
community, friends to be made, and a favorite sports and games like soccer,
safe haven in which to play for me, hopscotch, dandy shandy (dodgeball)
my brother and the neighborhood and we played in the ocean which
children.
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