Author: Eloise Greenfield
Illustrator: Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Format: Paperback
Published: Puffin Books, 1991

It is night on Neighborhood Street: "now the day has sped 'round / to evening / and children ring the sidewalk / singing." A little boy's "got the little boy blues...Waiting for his best, best / Friend to come home." The Robinson's get together for "fambly time," and Narissa cheers her parents "by telling them the best old / bedtime jokes." And "when the seller comes around / carrying in his many pockets / packages of death," all the children know enough to go inside. Evocative poems and paintings in blues, golds, and browns capture an everyday, magical evening in an African-American neighborhood.