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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.
LIBRA Rare F264.P37 G73 1979 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenfield, Eloise
- Little, Lessie Jones, author.
- Jones, Pattie Ridley, author.
- 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 American children.
- Parmele (N.C.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Parmele (N.C.).
- Washington (D.C.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Washington (D.C.).
- African American children--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--Biography.
- North Carolina--Parmele.
- Afro-American illustrator.
- Afro-American setting.
- Afro-American author.
- Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book 1980.
- Local Subjects:
- Afro-American illustrator.
- 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 Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979.
- Summary:
- Three generations of black women remember their "childtimes" in this lyrical memoir spanning a century of American history. "The intimate details of loving and growing up and the honesty with which they are told will involve all readers, both black and white . . ".--School Library Journal.
- 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:
- "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."
- "Jacket design: Trish Parcell."
- 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: dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Greenfield, Eloise. Childtimes.
- ISBN:
- 0690038747 :
- 9780690038743
- 0690038755
- 9780690038750
- 9780064461344
- 0064461343
- OCLC:
- 5265308
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