by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. In later years, Greenfield experienced sight and hearing loss, but she continued speaking and publishing books with the help of her daughter. The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation wrote that Greenfield "broadened the path toward a more diverse American literature for children." Awards and honors Among Greenfield's accolades is the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1976. Her book Childtimes received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her body of work was recognized by the National Black Child Developmental Institute in 1981. In 1983, Greenfield won the Washington, DC Mayor's Art Award in Literature and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. In 1990 she received a Recognition of Merit Award from the George G. Stone Center for Children's Books in Claremont, California. She won the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, given by the National Council of Teachers of English. She also received a lifetime achievement citation from the Ninth Annual Celebration of Black Writing, Philadelphia, PA, 1993; the Milner Award; the Hope S. Dean Award from the Foundation for Children's Literature; the American Library Association Notable Book citation; and the National Black Child Development Institute Award, among others. In 2013, Greenfield received the Living Legacy Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. She won a Coretta Scott King Award for her 1976 book Africa Dream, the 2018 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Coretta Scott King honors for The Great Migration: Journey to the North, Night on Neighborhood Street, Nathaniel Talking, Childtimes, Mary McCleod Bethune and Paul Robeson. She also won a Hurston/Wright Foundation North Star Award for lifetime achievement. When Greenfield accepted the Teaching for Change Education for Liberation Award in 2016, she said: Personal life Greenfield lived in Washington, D.C. from an early age and throughout her adult life. In 1950, she married World War II veteran Robert J. Greenfield, a long-time friend. The couple had a son, Steven (born 1951), and a daughter, Monica. They later divorced. Greenfield loved music and played the piano. Greenfield died of a stroke at the age of 92 on August 5, 2021. Selected works Fiction Bubbles (1972, illustrated by Eric Marlow, later reprinted as Good News) She Comes Bringing Me that Little Baby Girl (1974, illustrated by John Steptoe; winner of the Irma Simonton Black Award, Bank Street College of Education) Sister (1974, illustrated by Moneta