Everett Anderson is a character created by poet and children’s author Lucille Clifton. Everett is a boy about six years old who suffers with some tough life experiences. His father dies, his mother remarries and gets pregnant, and a new family moves in next door and the child is a yucky girl. Everett Anderson has the blues and Lucille Clifton expresses simply but poignantly Everett’s blues in poetry in seven picture books.
Everett Anderson’s 1-2-3
Everett Anderson’s Christmas Coming
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
Everett Anderson’s Nine Months Long
Everett Anderson’s Friend
Everett Anderson’s Year
Some of the Days of Everett Anderson
Suggested Activities to Respond to Literature:
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Students can: write a letter to Everett Anderson and share some of their own blues
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create their own “Everett Anderson Story”
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write a book report discussing their favorite E.A. story
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create artwork using colors that would reflect E.A.”s blues and/or their own
