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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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LESSIE JONES LITTLE was born in Parmele, North Carolina in 1906 and died in 1986. She began writing in her late sixties and continued to write for the rest of her life. She co-authored two childrens books with her daughter, Eloise Greenfield, I Can Do It By Myself and Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, a Coretta Scott King and Horn Book honor award book.
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Gilchrist's sweeping pastel illustrations summon readers and draw them into Little's affecting, nostalgic text about children in the past, who "ate picnics under spreading trees,/ Played hopscotch on the cool dirt yards, / Picked juicy grapes from broad grapevines,/ Pulled beets and potatoes from the ground,/ Those children of long ago." These statuesque children are every shade of brown, from cinnamon in the sunlight to a lustrous cocoa that glows in the light of oil-filled lamps; a rural setting in the early 1900s is the backdrop for these transcendent and evocative images. A girl tells her grandmother, "Your eyeglasses are pretty and thin and clear / With long gold arms that hug your ears." Another girl addresses "Mr. Empty Woodbox": "How can Mama make a meal/ When there's no wood for fire?" The answer is her own hard workshe runs off to gather wood. By turns playful and wistful, both text and pictures recreate a warm mood of American domesticity that readers will linger over. All ages.
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- PublisherLee & Low Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1584300094
- ISBN 13 9781584300090
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorJan Spivey Gilchrist
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