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.

Susie and Roberto's puppet show is temporarily interrupted when Louis becomes fascinated by one of the puppets.

Archie's day would have been great if he hadn't started it by greeting the new cat on the block.

An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

Roberto is very angry when his older brother Miguel promises to walk him home from school and then forgets.