Eloise Greenfield

Kindergartner Alaina is excited about thanking the audience at the end of the second-grade play, but she is overwhelmed by the performance and has to share her enthusiasm, center stage.

Thinker isn't just an average puppy--he's a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together they turn the world around them into verse. here's just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can't go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets' Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret....

Through historical information, poems, illustrations, and photographs, the author shows the ways in which African American midwives have helped families over the course of hundreds of years.

A collection of poems exploring the sounds, sights, and emotions enlivening a black neighborhood during the course of one evening.

A young girl depicts in poems and drawings the imaginary dinosaurs that she dreams up, like the sleeposaurus, the florasaurus, and Mr. and Mrs. Cha-Chasaurus.

A black child's dreams are filled with the images of the people and places of Africa.