Book Review- A chair for my mother

By Vera B Williams

Mommy works in a diner. She comes home after a days hard-work and has no where to relax. The little girl who occasionally helps out at her mothers workplace, has one dream- that of buying a chair for her mother- one that will be a pleasure to sink into at the end of a long day.

In the backstory to the current situation, we are told about how they lost everything in a fire and now have to make do with hand me downs from caring neighbours and friends.

The little girl and the grandmother start collecting all the change and tips in a large jar and once it is filled, they finally have enough to buy the chair.

Though the story on the face of it deals with finding joys in simple pleasures and working hard for it, it also brings in a lot of social issues like poverty, raised by a single parent, homelessness, power of family and community, being responsible, and learning to save money and more.

This could be a useful book to start your first conversations on money. It is a moving story on the power of community and how through their trials and tribulations they are always together and there for each other.

Not a fan of the illustrations, but they help in moving the story along, so it does its job.

Ideal for ages 5+yrs