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
These poems describe Little's own childhood in the rural South. Gilchrist's pastel illustrations vividly capture the simple joys of the lyrical poetry.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
