Ezra Jack Keats

When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.

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...

An illustrated version of the Christmas carol about the procession to Bethlehem and the offer of a poor boy to play his drum for the Christ Child. Music for the song appears in the back of the book.

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

Archie's day would have been great if he hadn't started it by greeting the new cat on the block.

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