A Chair for My Mother

Recommended Reading from our museum's Drop-in Art Making Theme: Memory. You can learn more about our onsite Drop-in Art Activities here.

By Vera Williams

This wonderful book tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a big jar in hopes that they can someday buy a new chair for their apartment, the kind of chair her mother deserves after being on her feet all day in the Blue Tile Diner. Into the jar also goes the money Grandma saves whenever she gets a bargain at the market.

Vera Williams enhances this story about family, community, and the power of working together toward a common goal with her signature folk art-inspired paintings. Recommended for ages 3+.

Softcover
32 pp.
8.25 x 10.5"