Ezra Jack Keats

A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.

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

Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.

From Caldecott Medal winner and acclaimed author Ezra Jack Keats. In his apartment in the city, Sam hears voices, barking dogs, snoring, and all kinds of other noises. One rainy day he also hears the sad sounds of a harmonica, and wonders who's playing. Sam's search leads him to Apt. 3, where he finds not only the source of the music--but a new friend.

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

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