Picture book · Fiction
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams
About the book
After a fire destroys their home, a girl, her mother, and her grandmother save coins in a jar to buy a comfortable armchair.
Reading notes
A warm story about family, community support, and saving toward a goal. The family's earlier house fire, which destroyed all their furniture, is part of the story.
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Recognition
- Caldecott Honor (1983)
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Book details
- Author
- Vera B. Williams
- First published
- 1982
- Suggested ages
- Ages 4–8 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Best read aloud
- Topics
- family, community, saving
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780688040741 · HarperTrophy (Greenwillow Books), August 1, 1984 · paperback
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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