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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7773060 Title: A chair for my mother Author: Vera B Williams; Greenwillow Books Publisher: New York : Greenwillow Books, [1982] ©1982 ISBN/ISSN: 068800914X 9780688009144 0688009158 9780688009151 0688040748 9780688040741 0606024840 9780606024846 0590331558 9780590331555 9781442054134 1442054131 0329073850 1413106994 9780329073855 9781413106992 9780808533856 0808533851 OCLC:7773060

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A chair for my mother

Author:	Vera B Williams; Greenwillow Books.
Publisher:	New York : Greenwillow Books, [1982] ©1982
Series:	Motheread.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : First editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Rating:	based on 1 rating(s) 0 with reviews - Be the first.
Subjects	Families -- Juvenile fiction. Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Picture books Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction
Material Type:	Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Vera B Williams; Greenwillow Books. Find more information about:
ISBN:	068800914X 9780688009144 0688009158 9780688009151 0688040748 9780688040741 0606024840 9780606024846 0590331558 9780590331555 9781442054134 1442054131 0329073850 1413106994 9780329073855 9781413106992 9780808533856 0808533851
OCLC Number:	7773060
Notes:	Art techniques used: Childlike watercolor in vivid hues.
Awards:	Caldecott Honor Book, 1983.
Description:	32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Series Title:	Motheread.
Responsibility:	Vera B. Williams.

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

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