Peter's Chair is a 1967 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.
Peter's Chair is the third in a series of books by Keats, following the 1963 Caldecott Medal winner The Snowy Day (1962) and Whistle for Willie (1964), that follow an African American boy named Peter throughout his childhood.
[2] The story of Peter's Chair addresses family conflicts such as sibling rivalry and running away from home, echoing events in Keats' own childhood.
In 1971 in an iconographic film produced by Weston Woods Studios, Loretta Long narrated the story.
Sophie Aldred also read the story in a 1992 episode of Words and Pictures featuring the letter G.