This is a very sweet story about a mother and daughter who are saving money to buy a chair. Their old chair was burnt in a house fire along with their other belongings they are forced to start over. The community around them pulls together to help them start over, however, they still don't have a chair. In order to buy a new chair the mother begins saving tips from her waitressing job so that they would someday be able to purchase a new chair. This is a story of persistence and hard work. This book is definitely a one I would share with a class. Through this story kids are able to see and understand that if they want something they might have to work and save for it. Patience and persistence pays off and the end result is worth everything that went into it.
The one thing that I loved about this book was it's vivid illustrations. Each page was filled with bright colors and details. Each illustration takes up the entire page and looks like a beautiful painting since there are visible brush strokes each illustration looks soft and blended. The illustrations and colors seem to capture the bright, cultural, urban environment in which the story takes place. I feel that the hopeful and positive tone of the book is reflected in the illustrations. That should be the point of illustrations to support the book and the tone that the author wanted to portray.
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