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Artwork from six Bahamian children's books. All of it is free to download and free to repost — on WhatsApp, on Instagram, in a classroom newsletter, anywhere you like.

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26 pictures, from these six titles:

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A writer’s desk at night with a hand-drawn ink map of Long Island, a conch shell and a straw fan.

A map of Long Island

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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Three Bahamian sloops under full sail racing past a line of festival tents.

Sloops racing at Salt Pond

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A bowl of chicken souse with lime, a golden johnny cake and a dish of red bird peppers on a table by the sea.

Souse and johnny cake

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A colouring page: a boy on a rocky shore watching a crewed sloop race past.

Colouring page: watching the race

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A large pink queen conch shell and two orange starfish on white sand at the edge of clear turquoise water, with green sea grape leaves at one side.

A conch shell and two starfish

All Things Bahamian: My First Cultural Coloring Book

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Rows of plain coloured bunting strung above a grassy waterfront at a Bahamian regatta. Three wooden sloops with tall masts and white sails race on turquoise water beyond. Coral-pink and yellow vendor stalls stacked with pineapples, coconuts and papaya, a crowd in straw hats watching from the grass.

Flags over the regatta

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A deep white enamel bowl of thick Bahamian soup with chunks of root vegetable, a wedge of lime on the rim, beside a fresh green coconut cut open with a straw in it, a folded paper napkin with a spoon resting on it, and a scattering of pigeon peas on a worn wooden table. Behind, the open serving window of a mint green and coral building with bougainvillea against the wall.

Friday soup at Green Leaf

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A row of small wooden vendor stalls at the Long Island regatta grounds at Salt Pond, painted pink, turquoise, yellow and lime green, with bunting lifting between their roofs and people walking between them. Sloops sit under sail on calm glassy turquoise water behind.

The vendor stalls at Salt Pond

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Sunrise over the Atlantic from the rocky Long Island shore: the sun just clear of the horizon, the sky banded apricot and gold, a low swell rolling in and small waves running up the pale sand in a thin lace of foam. Dark ironshore rock in front, casuarinas leaning, two seabirds on the wing.

Sunrise over the Atlantic

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A car driving home late at night on a narrow Long Island road, its headlights lighting the empty road ahead, which is lined with low scrub and leaning palms, enormous field of stars.

The drive home after midnight

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A full bright rainbow arching over the Atlantic from the Long Island shore as a shower clears, half the sky still soft grey and half opening to blue, with a low swell rolling in and small waves running up pale sand in a thin lace of foam.

Rainbow over the Atlantic

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A worktable seen from above with four sheets of cream paper, each carrying a hand-drawn dress design coloured differently — one patterned with hibiscus flowers, one with small shells around the hem, one with a sweep of stars, one left as a plain outline — with a jar of coloured pencils, loose pencils, scraps of bright fabric and ribbon and a dish of shells around them. Through a window behind, calm turquoise sea moves gently under palms.

Design Anna’s Celebration Dress

The Girl and The Whale Coloring and Activity Book

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Three Bahamian sisters walking barefoot together along the shore at Stella Maris, Long Island, early in the morning, seen from behind at a little distance, one carrying her sandals. The sky is soft apricot and pale gold just after sunrise. A low swell rolls in and small waves run up the wet sand in a thin lace of foam around their feet, with ironshore rock and casuarinas at the edge.

Stella Maris at dawn

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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The last night of a Bahamian regatta at Salt Pond: a lit stage with a band playing, people of all ages dancing on the grass in front of it, families watching from folding chairs, strings of lights between poles and food and craft stalls glowing at the side, with the dark harbour and moored boats beyond.

The last night of the regatta

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A table outside a small Bahamian restaurant at lunchtime: a bowl of soup with a spoon on a folded napkin, a plate of bread, and a fresh green coconut opened at the top with a straw in it, beads of water on its skin, with more coconuts in a basket, painted shutters and bougainvillea behind.

Lunch and a fresh coconut

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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A child's finished crayon drawing lying on a wooden desk: three figures seen from behind sitting close together on a beach at night — a tall one, a small one in the middle and a grandmotherly one — under a sky scribbled deep blue and covered in yellow stars, with a crayoned sea behind them. A jar of crayons, three loose crayons, a soft eraser and a small shell around the sheet, in warm lamplight.

Draw the Family Under the Stars

The Girl and The Whale Coloring and Activity Book

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A small white clapboard island church with a steep red roof, a short square bell tower and arched windows with pale blue shutters, three worn steps up to an open door. A low stone wall runs around a swept sandy yard, with a flowering poinciana and casuarinas beside it and two bicycles leaned against the wall in bright early light.

A Long Island church

Going To The Regatta: Nicholas’ Long Island Family Adventure

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Dean's Blue Hole on Long Island seen from the rock above: a near-circular pool of deep navy water set into pale turquoise shallows, a tall limestone cliff curving round one side and a crescent of white sand on the other. In the foreground a snorkel mask, swim fins and a closed notebook with a pencil across it, laid out and waiting, with nobody there yet. The shallows move gently while the deep blue circle stays calm.

A future Dean's Blue Hole adventure

Going To The Regatta Coloring and Activity Book

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