![]() For us, Langston Terrace wasn t an in-between place. On her ninth birthday, the family moved into Langston Terrace, a new low-income housing development. When he had saved enough money, he sent for his family, and Washington, D.C. It had, in some sense, already begun for her family and many others and, three months after her birth, her father went north to Washington, D.C., to find work and make a way for his wife and children. Greenfield was born Eloise Glynn Little, on May 17, 1929, in Parmele, North Carolina, five months before the stock market crash marked the official beginning of the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() Eloise Greenfield is the 11th winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, presented at the annual convention in Detroit, in November, In being honored for the aggregate body of her work, she joins a distinguished list of former winners: David McCord (1977), Aileen Fisher (1978), Karla Kuskin (1979), Myra Cohn Livingston (1980), Eve Merriam (1981), John Ciardi (1982), Lilian Moore (1985), Arnold Adoff (1988), Valerie Worth (1991), and Barbara Juster Espensen (1994). Sims reveals that Greenfield s early love of music echoes in both the form and content of her poetry and prose. 1 Profile Eloise Greenfield RUDINE SIMS BISHOP This month, Profiles editor, Rosalinda Barrera, invites Rudine 630 Sims Bishop to help us learn about Eloise Greenfield, recipient of the Eleventh NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry. ![]()
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