A Chair for My Mother

 

A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams is a multicultural Realistic fiction that is based on a little girl named Rosa, her mother, and her grandmother whose house was destroyed in a fire.  Rosa's mother works really hard as a waitress at the Blue Tile Diner. After the fire, Rosa, her mother and her grandmother moved into a new house and was given many things. But they needed a big comfortable chair.  Therefore, this family got a jar that they used to save their coins in with the hopes of buying a new chair for all of them to enjoy. At the end of the story the three of them takes a picture in their new chair.



A Chair for My Mother is also a picture book that was also illustrated by Vera B. Williams.The book is considered a picture book because it has a combination of text and  art.  The Media and Techniques used in this book are oil painting and acrylic. The style art used is Folk art and Naïve art.

 

Activities:

• Retelling the Story: Have children retell the story including characters, plot, setting, and theme.
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• Decorate  coin jar and come up with a theme for saving:  Ask children if there is anything that they want to save for specifically and decorate jar and write their purpose for saving on the coin jar.
•  Create a character scrapbook for the main characters

The Author:



 

Vera B. Williams is an American children's writer and illustrator.  She award winning author and is known best for A Chair for My Mother.  Vera has written many children books that represents diversity like Cherrie and Cherry Pits and Home.

 

Reference:

1. Williams,V.B.(1982/1998) A Chair For My Mother. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.