Children of Long Ago: Poems, Lessie Jones Little, Lee & Low Books, Incorporated, 2008, 1584300094, 9781584300090, 32 pages. What was it like long ago? What did children do? Were they like me? Did they feel the same way I do? Did they laugh the same way I laugh? These are things children wonder about. Lessie Jones Little answers these questions for children by drawing on memories from her own rural childhood in the early 1900s. In this collection of lyrical, warmhearted poems, children watch their father chop wood and ride in a horse-drawn wagon, but they also splash through puddles and jump over ditches, wait with anticipation for Papa to come home, and share a special reading time with Grandma, much like children of today. An introduction by Eloise Greenfield pays loving tribute to her motherto her creativity and vision, and to the timelessness of the words she has left for all of us. Jan Spivey Gilchrists graceful pastel illustrations are a stunning complement to the gentle voice of the verses..
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I found this book of lyrical poems a delight to read as it talked about the history of the everyday life back in rural America in the 1900s from the perspective of an elderly lady (Lessie Jones Little)growing up there. Lessie Jones Little mixes her memories and imaginations to create poems during the time of her childhood. The book is about happy times, although she had sad difficult times of hunger and her parents being separated. This book provides a clear look into the nature of a past genera...more I found this book of lyrical poems a delight to read as it talked about the history of the everyday life back in rural America in the 1900s from the perspective of an elderly lady (Lessie Jones Little)growing up there. Lessie Jones Little mixes her memories and imaginations to create poems during the time of her childhood. The book is about happy times, although she had sad difficult times of hunger and her parents being separated. This book provides a clear look into the nature of a past generation. These poems give an appreciation of how life was back then and one of my favourite poems was ‘Papa’s Cutting Wood’. The descriptive writing made me imagine hearing the wood being cut and visualizing the emotional and physical condition of her papa was easy to perceive.
The introduction to this book make the poems even more powerful and moving. "Life was quite different then." Life when I was younger is very different from the lives children live now. As time changes, ways of life change. It is important to teach our children the differences of time. We are so used to high technology that sometimes we forget or are unsure of what those older than us grew up like. While using these poems in language arts, take the opportunity to involve students' families. Have...more The introduction to this book make the poems even more powerful and moving. "Life was quite different then." Life when I was younger is very different from the lives children live now. As time changes, ways of life change. It is important to teach our children the differences of time. We are so used to high technology that sometimes we forget or are unsure of what those older than us grew up like. While using these poems in language arts, take the opportunity to involve students' families. Have the students ask their parents or grandparents what life was like when they grew up. Have students write down their responses to their parents answers. I can remember my grandmother telling me stories about when she had to find ways of entertaining herself. There was no television set or computers to play on. I learned a lot about my grandma through those conversations and on those visits to see her, I found myself playing more card games, reading more books, and helping her cook.(less)
In this book Lessie Jones Little uses poetry to recall her childhood in the early part of the twentieth century in rural North Carolina. Like the soft pastels of the book’s illustrations, the poems are created in warm tones and evoke pleasant memories of a child’s daily life. Universal topics such as family life, chores, and play are featured in many of the verses, and as Lucille Clifton pointed out in The New York Times Book Review: “What is important is that few if any other books describing those experiences have been about black children.― Children of Long Ago is a Parents’ Choice Award Winner and is listed in “Choices― selection by the Cooperative Children’s Book Council at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lessie Jones Little was born in Parmele, North Carolina, in 1906 and died in 1986, before publication of this book. Little began writing in her late sixties and continued to write for the rest of her life. She was also the mother of the award-winning children’s book author and poet, Eloise Greenfield, with whom she co-authored two children’s books, I Can Do It By Myself and Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir. Children of Long Ago, a collection of 17 poems, was first published in 1988 and was reissued in 2000 using the original illustrations.
Although Little grew up in the segregated South, she experienced the warmth of growing up in a loving family, and this is reflected in her poetry. As Greenfield says in the introduction to the book, her mother “mixed her memories and her imagination to create children growing up during the time of her childhood.― Although Mrs. Little didn’t live to see the book’s illustrations, Greenfield assures us that her mother “loved beautiful art.―
There are many resource books available with more information about organizing and implementing literature circles. Three such books you may wish to refer to are: Getting Started with Literature Circles by Katherine L. Schlick Noe and Nancy J. Johnson (Christopher-Gordon, 1999), Literature Circles: Voice And Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups by Harvey Daniels (Stenhouse, 2002), and Literature Circles Resource Guide by Bonnie Campbell Hill, Katherine L. Schlick Noe, and Nancy J. Johnson (Christopher-Gordon, 2000).
Introduce similes to the class and explain that these comparisons of unlike things are characterized by the words “like― or “as.― Give as an example this simile from “Children of Long Ago―: BUILT FANCY SNOWMEN DRESSED LIKE CLOWNS. Then challenge students to write five similes of their own.
Use the last poem in the book, “Children of Long Ago,― as the basis for a chart to help students compare children of long with children of today. Help students find examples from the book for the categories in the past. For instance, for “They cried― you might look at the poem “Wait Little Joe― and talk about why he would cry. Then have students think of something that would upset them in a similar way.
Remind students that one of the poems in the book is called “Paper Dolls.― After rereading the poem, have students make their own paper dolls from oaktag. Demonstrate how to add a stand to keep the dolls upright. Students can then design clothes for their dolls. Suggest that they make one outfit representing long ago and another outfit representing today.
Lessie Jones Little (1906-1986) was born in Parmele, North Carolina. She graduated from high school in 1924 and began teaching in the state’s public school system. After marrying her childhood sweetheart, Little moved with him to Washington, D.C. In addition to mothering five children, Little studied sewing and became a seamstress. She later worked for the U.S. government as a clerk. Her interests ranged from music, drawing, and the piano to working with children in neighborhood and church programs. In the 1970s Little became interested in writing and began attending workshops. With her daughter Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little co-authored two books. One of these, Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, was a Coretta Scott King and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book. Jan Spivey Gilchrist is an award-winning artist whose first book was Children of Long Ago. Since that time she has illustrated more than 38 books including many by Eloise Greenfield. Gilchrist has also authored several of her own books. She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and has a masters in painting from the University of Northern Iowa. Gilchrist was born in Chicago and now lives in a nearby suburb.
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Gilchrist's sweeping pastel illustrations summon readers and draw them into Little's affecting, nostalgic text about children in the past, who ``ate picnics under spreading trees,/ Played hopscotch on the cool dirt yards, / Picked juicy grapes from broad grapevines,/ Pulled beets and potatoes from the ground,/ Those children of long ago.'' These statuesque children are every shade of brown, from cinnamon in the sunlight to a lustrous cocoa that glows in the light of oil-filled lamps; a rural setting in the early 1900s is the backdrop for these transcendent and evocative images. A girl tells her grandmother, ``Your eyeglasses are pretty and thin and clear / With long gold arms that hug your ears.'' Another girl addresses ``Mr. Empty Woodbox'': ``How can Mama make a meal/ When there's no wood for fire?'' The answer is her own hard workshe runs off to gather wood. By turns playful and wistful, both text and pictures recreate a warm mood of American domesticity that readers will linger over. All ages. (April)
The lovely pastel illustrations in this collection of poems capture perfectly the quality of remembered activities. The poems are about childhood memories, snapshots of life as it was for children in the early twentieth century related gracefully in verse. The memories are heartwarming without sentimentality, evoking the pleasures that children felt in going barefoot, doing chores and playing with paper dolls in days before televisions and computers. The introduction by the poet's daughter, Eloise Greenfield, relates that her mother's childhood was not always as happy and carefree as the poems in this collection seem, but that the happy times were the ones she chose to write about for child readers. The collection is a worthwhile addition to any bookshelf for its charming and gentle stories of bygone days, but it has added value as part of a social studies or history unit about rural America or about African Americans. Reviewer: Ellen Welty
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 the illustrations for Children of Long Ago. Since then she has illustrated more than fifty books for children. She has received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Nathaniel Talking, a collection of poems by Eloise Greenfield, and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor for Night on Neighborhood Street, also by Greenfield. Their other collaborations include In the Land of Words; Honey, I Love; How They Got Over; I Can Draw a Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs; Water, Water; For the Love of the Game; and Me & Neesie. Many of these books have won ALA Notables and numerous other awards. Gilchrist has been inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent and the Society of Illustrators.
Eloise Greenfield was born in Parmele, North Carolina, on May 17, 1929. While she was still an infant, her family moved to Washington, D.C., where she has lived ever since. Ms. Greenfield studied piano as a child and teenager, before getting a full time civil service job. Her decision to write came from a lack of books on African Americans. There were far too few books that told the truth about African-American people. Ms. Greenfield wanted to change that. Greenfield has received many honors for her work, including the 1990 Recognition of Merit Award presented by the George G. Stone Center for Children's Books in Claremont, California for Honey, I Love; and an honorary degree from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing herself, Eloise Greenfield has found time to work with other writers. She headed the Adult Fiction and Children's Literature divisions of the D.C. Black Writers' Workshop (now defunct), a group whose goal was to encourage the writing and publishing of Africa-American literature. She has given free workshops on the writing of African-American literature for children, and, under grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, has taught creative writing to elementary and junior high school students. Ms. Greenfield is also a member of the African-American Writers Guild. Greenfield has also received the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, given by the National Council of Teachers of English. In 1999 she became a member of the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. She has received the Coretta Scott King Award for Africa Dream, the Carter G. Woodson Award for Rosa Parks, and the Irma Simonton Black Award for She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl. For many of her books, she has received Notable Book citations from the American Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Council for the Social Studies. Ms. Greenfield has received, for the body of her work, the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award from Moonstone, Inc., Philadelphia; and the 1993 Children's Literature and Social Responsibility Award from the Boston Educators for Social Responsibility. http://edufb.net/118.pdf http://edufb.net/298.pdf http://edufb.net/531.pdf http://edufb.net/525.pdf http://edufb.net/553.pdf