Pablo & His Chair

K-Gr 2—Young daredevil Pablo is proud of every scab earned while imagining himself an astronaut, cowboy, and soccer player. Therefore, he is devastated when his grandmother's birthday gift to him is a chair "so you'll sit still for once!" The boy's anger quickly recedes as he discovers ways to perform acrobatics with the chair. His skills grow so that he leaves his countryside home with the chair to become a celebrated paid performer across the world. Despite the "glitz and glamour," he returns home to enjoy dirt in his socks, dragonflies, and the wind in his hair. There, he finally sits down…to tell his family and friends about his adventures. Perret's pen-and-ink cartoons in retro colors celebrate the mundane and sneak in wry humor. A bear lives with Pablo's family and a robot attends one of his theater performances.