Ezra Jack Keats

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 Peter finds out that his blue furniture is being painted pink for his new baby sister, he takes the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise.

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

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 Maggie's pet cricket is stolen, she and her friends embark on a search for the "pirate" thief which ensues in a small tragedy, but the making of a new friend.

"With the help of his imagination, his parents, and a few scraps of junk, Louie and his friends travel through space" --

One night while everyone is sleeping, a little boy watches his paper mouse save a cat from an angry dog.

A collection of ten books by the Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator, with a brief biography and short essays by colleagues--including Jerry Pinkney and Eric Carle--who have been influenced by his work.

After moving to a busy new neighborhood with his mother, Louie decides to explore and see if there is anyone he might like to have as a father.