books in order

Lucille Clifton Books In Order

Everett Anderson Books In Order

  1. Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970)
  2. Everett Anderson’s Christmas Coming (1971)
  3. Everett Anderson’s Year (1974)
  4. Everett Anderson’s Friend (1976)
  5. Everett Anderson’s 1, 2, 3 (1977)
  6. Everett Anderson’s Nine Month Long (1978)
  7. Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (1983)
  8. One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (2001)

Novels

  1. Good, Says Jerome (1973)
  2. The Lucky Stone (1979)

Collections

Picture Books

  1. The Black BC’s (1970)
  2. Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring (1973)
  3. All Us Come Cross The Water (1973)
  4. Don’t You Remember? (1973)
  5. The Times They Used to Be (1974)
  6. My Brother Fine With Me (1975)
  7. Three Wishes (1976)
  8. Amifika (1977)
  9. My Friend Jacob (1980)
  10. Sonora Beautiful (1981)

Everett Anderson Book Covers

Novels Book Covers

Collections Book Covers

Picture Books Book Covers

Lucille Clifton Books Overview

Everett Anderson’s Christmas Coming

Only five more days till Christmas! As each day goes by, Everett is more excited. He loves listening to the carolers, watching snow fall from this fourteenth floor window, and decorating the Christmas tree. But most of all, he can’t wait to open his special present on Christmas day. As poignant today as it was twenty years ago, Lucille Clifton’s joyful text brings a little boy’s Christmas in the city to life. Newly illustrated in full color by Coretta Scott King Award winner Jan Spivey Gilchrist, this book may have an urban setting, but in emotion and appeal, it is universal.

Everett Anderson’s Friend

At first, Everett is disappointed to find that his new neighbor is a girl.

Everett Anderson’s Nine Month Long

A small boy and his family anticipate the birth of their newest member.

Everett Anderson’s Goodbye

‘A simple, poetic telling of Everett Anderson’s feelings as he copes with andaccepts the fact of his father’s death.’ Childhood Education. Coretta ScottKing Award; NCTE Teacher’s Choice; Reading Rainbow Feature. Full color.

The Lucky Stone

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Four interrelated stories focus on a lucky stone that brings freedom, love, and good fortune to its owners, four generations of black women.

Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring

Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they’ve heard is ‘just around the corner’.

All Us Come Cross The Water

A little black boy tries to find out where his people are from.

The Times They Used to Be

Mama, Mama. Tell us about when you was a girl…
tell us one of them stories about the olden days. So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sooky and her family turned on the radio to listen to Amos n Andy. Uncle Sunny, a veteran of the 92nd Division in World War II it was his time, too. But mostly it was Sooky’s time, as she sat on the curb with her best friend Tallahassie May Scott in the dusky summer nights, waiting for the street lights to go on. That summer Sooky was 12 years old and got her first pair of wedgies, and sin broke all out in her best friend s body because she wasn t saved.

Three Wishes

Nobie makes Three Wishes since she found a penny on New Year’s Day, and as each wish comes true, she discovers the truly important things in life.

Related Authors