Overview
]>Author Biography: Lucille Clifton, poet, storyteller, college professor, mother of six, and grandmother of four, is the author of many books for young readers. She has written eight books featuring the character Everett Anderson. Everett Anderson's Goodbye is a Coretta Scott King Award winner. Ms. Clifton lives in Maryland.
Ann Grifalconi has created more than fifty books for children. She is well known for her Caldecott Honor book, The Village of Round and Square Houses, as well as The Jazz Man, a Newbery Honor book written by her mother, Mary Weik.
Ms. Grifalconi lives in New York.
As a small boy's mother considers remarriage, he considers the numbers one, two, and three--sometimes they're lonely, sometimes crowded, but sometimes just right.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
This collection of brief verses, first published in 1977, chronicles Everett's anxieties when his favorite twosome himself and Mama attracts a new neighbor who comes calling for Mama. With the sparest of lines, Clifton conveys an array of emotions, as do Grifalconi's two-tone drawings. Ages 4-8. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.From the Publisher
"Not a counting book at all, but another Everett Anderson story in Clifton's deceptively ingenious verse....The illustrations [are] strongly drawn with bold, broken lines....The text is tender, artful in the simplicity and brevity with which it gets to the gist of the matter."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books