Night on Neighborhood Street Book

Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield is overall a good story. It gives children knowledge on how other children live their lives. It follows children and the things they go through before bed, and how they live their nightly lives. This book gives a new understand to children about other kids in other areas.
The poems in this book rhyme. They are all simple rhyming patterns, ones with easy rhythms that children can pick up on. The illustrations in this book were very vivid, and went along well with the poems of each child. However, the words in themselves created clear mental images. Eloise Greenfield provided positive insight in this book simply by expanding awareness of how other children live their lives. This book had a positive stretch. It illuminated the author's observation to expand the reader's knowledge and outlook on the world around them. Being that all the characters in this book are African Americans this would be a good poetry to book to read for Black History Month, it could also be a good way to find out what children do at night when they go to their homes.
I would use this book as a teacher for black history month, and that poems are not always silly, some of them can be serious. I would also use this book as a way to show rhythm in poetry seeing that all of the poems rhymed. The book definitely made me think that not everyone has the same advantages as everyone else does, and that we need to be more greatful for the things that we do have. It relates to my life because I live out in the country and do not realize the differences in culture and areas. This book shows that everyone lives their lives differently. The hidden situations in each poems definitely struck me. They never came right out and said the mother was not around in one of the picture instead she talked about the little girl's big sister being there for her.