Ezra Jack Keats

A young boy tries to learn how to whistle, so that he can call his dog like all the bigger boys do.

A little boy named Peter spends an exciting day playing in the new-fallen snow in his red snowsuit.

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...

"Archie made one mistake on his way to meet Peter-he made friends with the newcomer on the block! All he said was 'Hi, Cat,'but he hadn't quite expected the sudden attachment that the cat developed for him...."

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

Verses describing the activities of various animals also illustrate the numbers one through ten.

Two days after arriving in New York from Puerto Rico, eight-year-old Juanito, who speaks no English, loses his dog and searches for it all over the city making new friends along the way.

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

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