Night on Neighborhood Street

by Eloise Greenfield (Author) Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)

Night on Neighborhood Street
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

A wonderful collection of poems, this book gives a beautiful snapshot of life on Neighborhood Street.

"The magical and everyday reside comfortably together on Neighborhood Street and make it well worth the visit."--Booklist

"A warm, triumphant book."--School Library Journal

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Review quotes

"The magical andeveryday reside comfortably together on Neighborhood Street and make it well worth the visit."—Booklist

"A warm, triumphant book that will be wonderful to share with a group or in a more cozy situation."—School Library Journal

"Greenfield's poems have a peaceful tone that is perfectly matched in Gilchrist's gentle, dreamy paintings, where brown skins glow with a warm light against soft-focus backgrounds of shadowed walls and deep, starry sky. A winning combination." —Kirkus Reviews

Eloise Greenfield

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. She has received the Hurston/Wright Foundation's North Star Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Moonstone Celebration of Black Writing, and has an Honorary Doctor of Education Degree from Wheelock College in Boston. Greenfield has also been inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. She lives in Washington, D.C.

George Ford is an award-winning artist who has illustrated dozens of children's books, including several by noted authors such as Nikki Grimes, Eloise Greenfield, Nikki Giovanni, and Robert Coles. In 1974, he was the recipient of the first Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Ray Charles. A lifelong jazz enthusiast, Ford lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140556834
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
O
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
February 19, 1996
Series
Puffin Pied Piper
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
City and town life
Children's poetry
Poetry
Night
Neighborhoods
Coretta Scott King Award
Honor Book 1992 - 1992

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