Children of Long Ago - Hardcover

Little, Lessie Jones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584300086 ISBN 13: 9781584300083

Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc, 2000

Synopsis

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

About this title

Synopsis:

What was it like to live long ago? What did children do? Were they like me? These are things that all children wonder about. Lessie Jones Little answers these questions with memories of her own rural childhood in the 1900s. In CHILDREN OF LONG AGO her recollections of making paper dolls are interspersed with trips to Sunday school and learning about your new baby sister in this beautiful collection of warm-hearted poems. In a loving introduction, Eloise Greenfield pays tribute to her mother's timeless creativity.

About the Author:

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 children’s 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1584300086
• ISBN 13: 9781584300083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gilchrist Jan Spivey