Ezra Jack Keats

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

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

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 the hat Jennie receives from her aunt is not as fancy as she had hoped, her bird friends decorate it for her.

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

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.

On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.

After only two days in New York, a young Puerto Rican boy who speaks no English loses his dog and sets out to find it.

A young black boy spends an adventurous day in the city when it snows.

A collection of Halloween stories.