Peter's Chair

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Peter's Chair

Author	Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator	Ezra Jack Keats
Country	United States
Genre	Children's picture book
Publication date	1967
ISBN	0-14-0564411
Dewey Decimal	[E]

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 1971 in an iconographic film produced by Weston Woods Studios, Loretta Long narrated the story.

Sophie Aldred also read the story in a 1992 episode of Words and Pictures featuring the letter G.