In 1956, Gwendolyn Brooks created thirty-four poems that celebrated the joy, beauty, imagination, and freedom of childhood. Bronzeville Boys and Girls reminds us that whether we live in the Bronzeville section of Chicago-or any other neighborhood-childhood is universal in its richness of emotions and new experiences. This full-color edition illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold is now available for the first time in paperback.