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Night on Neighborhood Street
A collection of poems exploring the sounds, sights, and emotions enlivening a black neighborhood during the course of one evening.
Mass Market Paperbound, 32 pages
Published
February 1st 1996
by Puffin Books
(first published 1991)
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Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield is overall a good story. It gives children knowledge on how other children live their lives. It follows children and the things they go through before bed, and how they live their nightly lives. This book gives a new understand to children about other kids in other areas.
The poems in this book rhyme. They are all simple rhyming patterns, ones with easy rhythms that children can pick up on. The illustrations in this book were very vivid,...more
The poems in this book rhyme. They are all simple rhyming patterns, ones with easy rhythms that children can pick up on. The illustrations in this book were very vivid,...more
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Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist is a wonderful poetry picture book. Greenfield really is able to celebrate all that is wonderful about African American poetry, reflecting and endorsing the urban neighborhood community feel through free verse rhythmic poetry.
In her poem "The Meeting" alliteration is used with strong "t" sounds describing a man in the neighborhood meeting who tends to get agitated and start fig...more
In her poem "The Meeting" alliteration is used with strong "t" sounds describing a man in the neighborhood meeting who tends to get agitated and start fig...more
I really enjoyed this book. The author and illustrator give us a look at a fictional predominantly African-American, urban neighborhood and its inhabitants. I believe that many students will find themselves able to relate to elements in these stories, even if they are not African-American, urban or of a lower economic standing. Most children (and adults) can relate to the two-voiced poem, “Goodnight, Juma,” where a child is pestering his father in order to stall bedtime a bit. Many people wi...more
Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield has detailed, colorful illustrations to accompany the various poems throughout the book. Each poem provides vivid details on the live's of the occupants of Neighborhood Street. Eloise Greenfield does a compelling job of capturing African American poetry within this book; and gives readers an in depth look at some activities, places, and people one would meet in this neighborhood. The illustrations match the descriptive poems, which provides reade...more
Grade Range 1st-4th
This book contains a collection of themed poems. They all delve into the sounds, sights, and feelings animating a black neighborhood during the course of only one evening. The poem I found to be the most powerful, is entitled, "The Seller," "Who comes around carrying in his many pockets, packages of death."" The artwork in this book of poetry is utterly amazing and puts the icing on the cake of this lovely book of themed poetry. I think this wou...more
This book contains a collection of themed poems. They all delve into the sounds, sights, and feelings animating a black neighborhood during the course of only one evening. The poem I found to be the most powerful, is entitled, "The Seller," "Who comes around carrying in his many pockets, packages of death."" The artwork in this book of poetry is utterly amazing and puts the icing on the cake of this lovely book of themed poetry. I think this wou...more
This book of poems introduced me to a culture and lifestyle different from my own. Neighborhood Street seems to be in a poorer, predominantly African American area. These poems showed the good and bad, simply telling it like it is. My favorite was "Fambly Time."
Beautifully illustrated, I especially liked the poem "Little Boy Blues", "Lawanda's Walk" and "When Tanya's Friends Come to Spend the Night".
Books like these are what I like to call bridge building books, ones that help us all see we are far more alike than different.
Books like these are what I like to call bridge building books, ones that help us all see we are far more alike than different.
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