Par-Tay!: Dance of the Veggies (and Their Friends)

What happens when the family closes the front door and leaves the house for an outing? ＂The head of cabbage, sitting in the fridge, hears the front door close, hears the click of the key ... He looks out ... sees his people leave ... He stands in the middle of the floor ... throws his head back and yells, ＂PAR-TAY!＂ Children and adults will experience this house party through the buoyant, rhythmic words of Eloise Greenfield and the playful, exuberant illustrations of Don Tate. Read and join the PAR-TAY!

With many award-winning books to her credit, Eloise Greenfield has achieved her status among the most celebrated of children’s authors. Multiple lifetime achievement awards include a Living Legacy Award, a Hope S. Dean Award, an NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children among others. She has been inducted into the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. Africa Dream received the Coretta Scott King Award while the Coretta Scott King Author Honor and an ALA 2012 Notable Children’s book honored her title, The Great Migration: Journey to the North. She received the Carter G. Woodson Award for Rosa Parks. For Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems, she received the 1990 Recognition of Merit Award, presented by the George G. Stone Center for Children’s Books. She received the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award for Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, written with her mother, Lessie Jones Little. In 2013, Eloise Greenfield was one of twenty African American women who received the Living Legacy Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). These are just some of Eloise Greenfield’s many awards. Don Tate is an award-winning illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children including Whoosh!, Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, The Cart That Carried Martin, Hope’s Gift, and many others. He is also the author of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started To Draw, both books are Ezra Jack Keats award winners. Don is a founding host of the The Brown Bookshelf - a blog dedicated to books for African American young readers; and a member of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority narratives in children’s literature.