Lecture: Bicentennial: Haiti's Gift to the World

Immigrant couple write book about their native Haiti

Disappointed with the information available on their homeland, two Haitian emigres decided to write a children's book themselves.

BY JULIE LEVIN
Special to The Miami Herald

Born in Haiti and now living in Davie, Yvrose and Jerry Gilles did not want their children to become disconnected from their roots.

Unhappy with the resources the children had to learn about their homeland, the couple set about creating a permanent record of Haitian history that would be available for all.

The result is a 200-page book, Bicentennial: Haiti's Gift to the World.

''We were not satisfied with the history as told,'' said Yvrose Gilles, who began researching her book four years ago. ``We wanted to give our kids a better sense of who they are.''

The original idea was to have the book ready by 2004, in time for Haiti's bicentennial. But the recent political unrest in Haiti made that impossible

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