William and the Good Old Days

Greenfield, Eloise

4.3

10 ratings by Goodreads

9780060210946: William and the Good Old Days

ISBN 10: 006021094X ISBN 13: 9780060210946

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993

‘Once again Greenfield displays commendable sensitivity in this story about an African-American boy who must cope with a beloved grandmother’s illness.’—Publishers Weekly. ‘This poignant exploration of a child’s feelings of loss, sorrow, and hope features a closely knit African-American family and community, lovingly depicted in paintings.... A wonderful sense of neighborhood permeates the pages of this touching book.’—SLJ.

Notable 1994 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)

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About the Author:

Eloise Greenfield's love of writing shines through brilliantly in each and every one of her books, which include Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems and How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea, both illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. She is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, the Foundation for Children's Literature Hope S. Dean Award, and the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award. In 2018 she received the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ms. Greenfield lives in Washington, DC. You can follow her on Twitter @ELGreenfield.

Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator-author of seventy-four children's books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, a Junior Library Guild Best Book, an NAACP Image Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book, and a Georgia State Children's Book Award nominee. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.

From Publishers Weekly:

Once again Greenfield displays commendable sensitivity in this story about an African American boy who must cope with a beloved grandmother's illness. William reminisces about the "good old days" before Grandma got sick and lost her sight. He longs for the times at Grandma's restaurant--a nurturing world full of loving family and friends--"where all those happy people -sounds would make my food taste extra, extra good." Eventually William begins to focus on the "good new days," planning how Grandma can help him plant flowers despite her blindness. Greenfield captures not only the language of a child but also a credible reaction to the decline of a grandparent: anger, sadness, compassion and, ideally, the courage to accept and move forward. As in the author and artist's Night on Neighborhood Street , the text fits hand-in-glove with Gil-christ's paintings, equally rich in emotion and in tenderness for their subjects, their compositions delicately juxtaposing William's everyday circumstances and those he yearns for. Ages 4-8.
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