Peter's Chair
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| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
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| Illustrator | Ezra Jack Keats |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
Publication date | 1967 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 0-14-0564411 |
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Peter's Chair is a 1967 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.
Plot
Peter has a new baby sister. First his father paints Peter’s old cradle pink, then his crib. Then his parents want to paint Peter’s chair! “Let’s run away, Willie,” he says to his dog. And they do. This is a gentle and reassuring story about sibling rivalry.
Adaptations
In 1967 in the cartoon film, Loretta Long narrated and played the characters.
Sophie Aldred also read the story in a 1992 episode of Words and Pictures featuring the letter G.
