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.

Relates, in verse, the excitement and joy of a young boy anticipating as well as celebrating Christmas in the city.

Lucille Clifton is a poet, storyteller, college professor, mother of six, and author of books for young readers. She wrote her first book, Some of the Days of Everett Anderson, because she "wanted to write something about a little boy who was like the boys my children might know, for my children and others." Since then, Lucille Clifton has continued to write picture-book stories, including several that feature Everett Anderson. Ms. Clifton lives in Maryland.

Jan Spivey Gilchrist received the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations for Eloise Greenfield's Nathaniel Talking. An artist and former art teacher, Ms. Gilchrist has exhibited her works throughout Canada and the United States. She lives in suburban Chicago.