Book Descriptions
for Children of Long Ago by Lessie Jones Little and Jan Spivey Gilchrist
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The late Lessie Jones Little, the mother of poet and fiction writer Eloise Greenfield, was born in North Carolina in 1906. The 17 poems published here evoke images of the rural African-American family life of Ms. Little's younger years, as do the full-color illustrations which fill all the double-page spreads. (Ages 3-9)
CCBC Choices 1988. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Poems reflecting simpler days, with grandmothers who read aloud and children who walk barefoot on damp earth and pick blackberries for their paper dolls to eat.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
