Bronzeville Boys and Girls is a collection of poems for and about children by a noted poet who knows the boys and girls who live in the Bronzevilles all over the country.

The poems are set in Chicago, but their locale could be any one of the crowded, teeming cities of America. There are countless children like Lyle, a young boy who envies a tree because it never has to move away from home as Lyle has had to do seven times. Then there is Andre, who might be any child anywhere. He realizes that if he could choose his parents he would pick the two he already has. There are children having a tea party, the thoughts of a child hearing Marion Anderson sing, and children playing or thinking quietly.

Some of the poems in this book are happy, some are thoughtful, and some have an element of sadness in them. They are all poems of young life, each expressing the intense feelings and emotions of the children whom they are about.

Ronni Solbert has drawn sensitive and compelling pictures which further the mood and grace of the poetry.

From the dust jacket