A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams Susan Rybin First published 1940

About this book

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

Subjects

  • 1000blackgirlbooks
  • age:max:13
  • age:min:3
  • ahorro
  • award:caldecott_award
  • bilingual
  • blind
  • books and reading
  • caldecott medal
  • chairs
  • chairs, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • collectionid:caldecotthonor80
  • families
  • family
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • ficción juvenil
  • fiction
  • fires
  • generosity
  • grade:max:3
  • grade:min:kindergarten
  • grandmothers
  • hmong language materials
  • juvenile fiction
  • literature and fiction, juvenile
  • money, fiction
  • mothers, fiction
  • readers
  • saving and investment
  • saving and thrift
  • sillas
  • single-parent families
  • spanish language
  • spanish language materials
  • vida familiar
  • waitresses