Birthday Suit
Johnny loves nothing better than splashing in the ocean waves—naked.
But Mom says now that he’s four he’s too old to run around without clothes on. She even buys him a pair of overalls with genuine 100 percent child-proof snap fasteners! But they’re no match for Johnny as he wriggles out of them.
Olive Senior is a Jamaican Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer.
Other publications from this author include:
- Boonoonoonous Hair (2019)
- The Pain Tree (2015)
- Anna Carries Water (2013)
- Dancing Lessons (2011)
- Shell (2007)
- Over the Roofs of the World (2005)
- Discerner of Hearts (1995)
- Gardening in the Tropics (1994)
- Arrival of the Snake-Woman (1989)
- Summer Lightning and Other Stories (1986)
- Talking of trees (1985)