Ezra Jack Keats

"In this book sparkling with atmosphere, a small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. The brief, vividly expressed text points out his new awareness".--The Horn Book. A Caldecott Honor Book. Full color.

A little boy wishes he could whistle.

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

Keats begins abruptly with Louie, lonely in a drab new home, unaccountably constructing a peepshow city in a shoebox. But this combination of collage and childlike drawing does make an enticing, dreamlike background for Louie's imagined trip back to the old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat, " while...

When the hat Jennie receives from her aunt is not as fancy as she had hoped, her bird friends decorate it for her.

Two dogs almost give up their efforts to learn to roller skate until they have an opportunity to help a stranded kitten.

On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.

Willie longs to be able to whistle for his dog and makes many ingenious attempts.