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Peter's Chair
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Author Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator Ezra Jack Keats
Country United States
Genre Children's picture book
Publication date
1967
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 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.

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