1ST EDITION/1ST PRINTING STATED hardcover book NEAR FINE /dustjacket NEAR FINE brodart covered, SIGNED on bookplates by illustrator JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST.

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Title

JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST: Poems

Publisher

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Lee & Low Books, Incorporated, 2000

Publication Date

2000

ISBN 10

1584300086

ISBN 13

9781584300083

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Signed

Signed by Author

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Synopsis

A collection of seventeen poems that detail the daily pleasures of the African American childhood during the early 1900s.

About the Author

Eloise Greenfield is a celebrated poet and the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and biography for children, including the Coretta Scott King Award winner Africa Dream, The Coretta Scott King Award Honor books Mary McLeod Bethune and Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir, co-written with her mother. Greenfield is the recipient of the Hope S. Dean Award from the Foundation for Children's Literature, and the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.

Lessie Jones Little was born in 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 children's books with her daughter, Eloise Greenfield, one of which, CHILDTIMES: A THREE-GENERATION MEMOIR, was named a Coretta Scott King award and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book.

Jan Spivey Gilchrist was a fine artist and art educator for nearly twenty years before she entered the children's book field in 1988, with Children of Long Ago. Since then, she has illustrated more than fifty books for children, including many by Eloise Greenfield. Their book, NATHANIEL TALKING, won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and an Author Honor. Gilchrist has been inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent and the Society of Illustrators.

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