Childtimes : a three-generation memoir / by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little ; with material by Pattie Ridley Jones ; drawings by Jerry Pinkney and photographs from the authors' family albums.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenfield, Eloise, author.

Little, Lessie Jones, author.

Jones, Pattie Ridley, author.

Contributor:

Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Pattie Ridley--Juvenile literature.

Jones, Pattie Ridley.

Little, Lessie Jones--Juvenile literature.

Little, Lessie Jones.

Greenfield, Eloise--Juvenile literature.

Greenfield, Eloise.

African Americans--North Carolina--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans--North Carolina--Biography.

Parmele (N.C.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Parmele (N.C.).

African American children--Biography.

North Carolina--Biography.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--Parmele.

Afro-American setting.

Afro-American author.

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book 1980.

Local Subjects:

Afro-American setting.

Afro-American author.

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book 1980.

Genre:

Biographies.

Literature.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Harper Trophy edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : HarperTrophy a Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993.

Summary:

Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter-who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's.

Contents:

Landscape

Family Tree

Procession

Part I. Pattie Frances Ridley Jones

Part II. Lessie Blanche Jones Little

Part III. Eloise Glynn Little Greenfield

Epilogue.

Notes:

"First Harper Trophy edition, 1993."

"Designed by Trish Parcell."

"Some of the material in Pattie Ridley Jones' section of this memoir appeared previously in a booklet entitled 'Looking Back,' published privately by the family of Mrs. Jones in 1971."

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1980

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has former library copy with date due slip and call number pasted to cover.

Banks Collection copy has article from The Washington Post laid in.

ISBN:

0064461343

9780064461344

0690038755

9780690038750

OCLC:

27482355