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Jamaica's Find
Jamaica finds a stuffed dog at the playground and after taking him home without trying to find the owner discovers her conscience as well. Jamaica’s honest and appealing character inspired five more books, each about a childhood ethical dilemma.
Jamaica’s Find celebrates its twentieth anniversary with this new edition featuring an author’s note in the paperback edition.
Jamaica’s Find celebrates its twentieth anniversary with this new edition featuring an author’s note in the paperback edition.
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
September 21st 1987
by Sandpiper
(first published March 24th 1986)
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Jamaica’s Find is a realistic fiction book for grade 3 and above. The book won the Ezra Jack Keats Award in 1987. The story is about a little girl playing at the playground. She happens to find a hat and a teddy bear while she is there. She goes to the lost and found and turns in the hat but she does not turn in the bear. She decides to take the bear home with her. Jamiaca’s mother ask about the bear and she tells her mother where she found the bear. Jamaica wants to keep the bear but her mother...more
Jamaica's find is about a little girl who goes to the park and finds a red hat and a stuffed dog. She takes the hat to the lost and found at the park, but keeps the dog and takes it home. Jamaica tells her mother what she found and she says that she returned the hat, but she liked the stuffed dog and wanted to keep it. Her mother was proud that she returned the hat, but said she should have returned the dog too. Jamaica's family says the dog is dirty and not to put it on the table. Jamaica gets...more
Mar 12, 2013
Salima Hart
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This is a story about a little girl that finds some great things in the park. She decides to turn most of those things in to the park ranger; everything except a little stuffed dog. Jamaica takes the little dog home and shows it off to her family. Much to her surprise, instead of being happy about the dog, her family encourages her to return it to the ranger so that the rightful owner can find it. After long contemplation, she decides that her family is right and returns it to the park. While pl...more
The story is nice. It shows how nice is when people is honest and friendly. It does not matter what is your skin color as long as you have your heart filled with clean thoughts and have a good disposition to make others happy. Life is short and why not make it easier and pleasant to yourself and others? Little good things you do toward people can be the difference to change the world.
Extension:
Have a discussion with children. Be emphatic in letting them know that the color of skin does not deter...more
Extension:
Have a discussion with children. Be emphatic in letting them know that the color of skin does not deter...more
Does the author have something to say to a child? Yes, the message is very clear
What message (theme) is the author trying to convey? You can’t just keep something you find – the person who lost it probably wants it back.
Does the book allow a child to share in human emotion? Yes, I think most children can relate to what Jamaica was experiencing. It is hard to do the right thing.
Does the book respect the audience? Yes, the book does a good job of not passing judgment on Jamaica’s original decision...more
What message (theme) is the author trying to convey? You can’t just keep something you find – the person who lost it probably wants it back.
Does the book allow a child to share in human emotion? Yes, I think most children can relate to what Jamaica was experiencing. It is hard to do the right thing.
Does the book respect the audience? Yes, the book does a good job of not passing judgment on Jamaica’s original decision...more
Have you ever lost something that you wished you could find? Or better yet, found something that you wanted to keep? This is a situation that many children can relate to. Young readers will be able to connect to this text through the eyes of at least one of the characters presented. This book focuses on making the right decision when in one of the mentioned situations. This book can be used in the classroom to discuss good decision making skills.
An outstanding book! It explores a child's world from a child's view and captures the difficulty of making hard choices between right and wrong. It "shows" rather than "tells" and avoids all preachiness. The parents are wonderful role models for us all, and I love how well and with such acceptance, Havill conveys a range of feelings. This should be in everyone's personal library.
Recommended ages: 4-10
Recommended ages: 4-10
Jamaica's find is a short story about a little girl who finds a few things on the playground and has to make the decision to turn the
Items in to the lost and found. This would be a great text to use to teach past tense verbs. It also would be great for teaching students to do the right thing. Children lose things all the time, and if they lost something they'd want someone to turn in their belongings.
Items in to the lost and found. This would be a great text to use to teach past tense verbs. It also would be great for teaching students to do the right thing. Children lose things all the time, and if they lost something they'd want someone to turn in their belongings.
Jamaica's Find is a great book to read to students in the beginnig of the year or whenever you feel that honesty should be dicussed in the classroom. The little girl Jamaica finds a stuffed animal and decides that she should find the owner of the stuff dog she found at the park. Honesty is a great topic to cover with young children in the classroom.
Diverse characters in this book which I love! This book covers the lesson of telling the truth and returning somthing that was found. This would be a good read aloud for a class that had a students that took things and claimed them for their own. I believe this is an important character trait to teach, and this would be a great book a "Truth" lesson.
Feb 11, 2011
Jenna
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This is a great story to read to prek on up to 2nd graders about not takign things that don't belong to you. In the end of the story when the dog gets returned to the little girl that jamacia took it from, she is so happy and it jsut shows kids how much it can help someone if you return things you find rather than just takign them.
This would be a good book to instill the idea of not taking things that don't belong to you. The little girl finds a dog and takes it home- her guilty conscience enables her to keep it. The next day she gives it to lost and found. She sees a girl on the playground looking for something... read to find out the rest. But i liked it!
This is a heart warming book that teaches children about right and wrong and about hard choices. This book is also appropriate for making predictions. For example, students can start by making a prediction as to "What is Jamaica's find?"
A little girl named Jamaica finds a stuffed puppy on the playground that she grows attached. She gets upset when her mother tells her that she has to take the puppy to lost and foun for someone to claim it.
Thiss book will teach children a lesson of giving back. This is a literacy builder that creates challenges for children with the difficult words.
A book about turning in lost items. This has a great lesson because it shows the fact that all found items was someone else's first.
great book to give a moral lesson. great for diversity. good read aloud. the girl finds a puppy and has to decide to do the right thing
Great book to read. It is a multicultural book and it teaches chidlren how to accept themsleves (the good adn the bad).
This book was read to us during a training session. It's cute. I might have enjoyed it more if I were still a child.
Illustrations feel a little dated now, but are still pretty and tell a great story.
"A Reading Rainbow Selection" :)
"A Reading Rainbow Selection" :)
I liked this book very much as a child. This book can be used in the classroom to teach children that it's a good idea to return items that don't belong to them. It's a nice multi-cultural story with a great morale for children who are often wondering what to do with special things they find and desire to keep.
Jamaica learns the value of a special gift, enenthough it's not her gift.
Teaches that it feels good to be honest!
Discuss honesty and being fair.
Jamaica's find is the story about a little girl who finds forgotten items in the park and has to make the decision to return ALL items to the lost and found. Overall, great for teaching morals and past tense verbs.
One of the best books about friendship, honesty, racial harmony, parental relationships ever. But it's just disguised as a good story.
May 21, 2013
Sherry Holmes
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Juanita Havill is the author of more than thirty books for children, including I HEARD IT FROM ALICE ZUCCHINI, a collection of poems about the garden; JAMAICA'S FIND, Reading Rainbow Review Book, IRA-CBC Children's Choice and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award); JAMAICA TAG-ALONG American Bookseller Pick of the Lists); and EYES LIKE WILLY'S (Crown-Lamplighter honor book). She lives and gardens i...more
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