Bibliographic Information: Greenfield, E. (1991). Night on Neighborhood Street. Illus. Jan Spivey Gilchrist. New York, New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.
Brief Annotation: This book contains a collection of short poems. There are different themes such as happiness, sadness, and other realistic events. The overarching theme is nighttime. This is a culturally diverse book as well.
Genre: Poetry
Grade Level: K-3
Readers who will like this: Readers who like poetry.
Rating/response: 2. This book has a wide variety of short poems, some of them rhyme, and some don't this would be a good tool to show the different types of poetry to young readers. The illustrations that accompany the poems are beautiful.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: What are some characteristics of poems?
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