Author Storytime! Edwidge Danticat Reads Watch Out For Falling Iguanas

In Watch Out for Falling Iguanas, young Leila sets off for school on a rare chilly day in Miami. Her walk is filled with curious encounters, like roaming peacocks and chickens crossing the road, but she can’t stop thinking about her grandmother’s warning to watch out for falling iguanas. And so begins an unexpected adventure to discover why those tropical creatures fall from trees during cold fronts. Grades K-3.

Authors

EDWIDGE DANTICAT was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was 12. She is the editor of Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, and the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), Krik? Krak!, and The Dew Breaker, among other books for adults. Her children’s picture books include Eight Days: A Story of Haiti; Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation; The Last Mapou; My Mommy Medicine; and Watch Out for Falling Iguanas. A MacArthur fellow, Danticat currently teaches at Columbia University.

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