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
What was it like long ago? What did children do? Were they like kids today? Lessie Jones Little answers these questions in this classic poetry book by tapping memories from her own rural childhood in the early 1900s. The result is a collection of warm, lyrical poems.
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