Night on Neighborhood Street (1991) is a collection of poems depicting everyday life in an urban community.
The poignant Alesia (1981) concerns the bravery of a girl handicapped by a childhood accident. Her first book, Bubbles (1972), "sets the tone for much of Greenfield's later work: Realistic portrayals of loving African American parents working hard to provide for their families, and the children who face life's challenges with a positive outlook." In She Come Bringing Me that Little Baby Girl (1974), a boy deals with feelings of envy and learns to share his parents' love when his baby sister arrives. These relationships are emphasized in Sister (1974) a young girl copes with the death of a parent with the help of other family members, Me and Nessie (1975) about best friends, My Daddy and I (1991) and Big Friend, Little Friend (1991) about mentoring. She says that she seeks to "choose and order words that children will celebrate".ĭismayed by the depiction of blacks and black communities in popular media, Greenfield has focused her work on realistic but positive portrayals of African-American communities, families and friendships. She has published more than 40 children's books, including picture books, novels, poetry and biographies. After joining the District of Columbia Black Writers Workshop in 1971, she began to write books for children. She began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working at the Patent Office, finally succeeding in getting her first poem published in the Hartford Times in 1962 after many years of writing and submitting poetry and stories. In 1950, she married World War II veteran Robert J. Greenfield began work in the civil service at the U.S. In her third year, however, she found that she was too shy to be a teacher and dropped out. She graduated from Cardozo Senior High School in 1946 and attended Miner Teachers College until 1949. Greenfield experienced racism first-hand in the segregated southern U.S., especially when she visited her grandparents in North Carolina and Virginia. A shy and studious child, she loved music and took piano lessons. Little and his wife Lessie Blanche (née Jones) Little (1906–1986).
She was the second oldest of five children of Weston W. Greenfield was born Eloise Little in Parmele, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression in the Langston Terrace housing project, which provided a warm childhood experience for her.
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