Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers.

NEWSOME, Effie Lee.

Item Number: 134369

Washington, D.C: The Associated Publishers, 1944.

First edition of this work by one of the great writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Illustrated by Lois Mailou Jones.

Effie Lee Newsome mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. She edited a column in The Crisis from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s. Newsome also illustrated for children's magazines and edited children's columns for Opportunity. She also wrote poems for adults, which were included in The Poetry of the Negro (1949). Her only volume of poetry was Gladiola Garden (1940).