A Chair For My Mother

A Chair For My Mother. By Vera B Williams. 1982. 32 p. Greenwillow Books, $6.99 (0688040748).
Pre-school-Gr.2. A family has lost all of their possessions in a fire. Now the little girl who is telling the story, her mother, and her grandmother are saving up all of their money in a glass jar so that they can purchase a big, fat, easy chair. When the jar is full the family rolls the coins from the jar and buys a chair which takes a place of honor in their home. This book show the joy of saving and delayed gratification. It also explains another way to count money with the rolling of the