Books with author Eloise Greenfield

Poetry and portraits of young black children reveal all the beauty in children's wishes, yearnings, and memories. "Award-winners Greenfield and Feelings have unquestionably worked together in harmony to create their sensitive portrayals of black boys and girls." --Publishers Weekly. "Though the text is spare...the sentiments are richly expressed, with artful images and canny turns of phrase. Feelings provides a gallery of surely sketched, thoughtful black faces whose individuality and character make them as much worth contemplating as the poem." --Booklist

When Doretha was nine, her father gave her an old notebook with empty pages. On the first page, Doretha wrote in black: "Me, age 9. My Doretha Book - Memories." Now Doretha is thirteen, and there are lots of pages filled up with words and colors, each page holding a special memory. Some are happy, like the day Doretha learns about her freedom-fighting, ex-slave ancestor. And some are sad - the death of her father, and the painful struggles of her older sister. As Doretha reads the book from start to finish, she realizes that these events are what have given her the courage and insight she needs to be herself.