A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day

A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator ofÂ The Snowy Day.

The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keatsâ€™s obvious talent, his father worried that Ezraâ€™s dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA and Marvel comics. But it was many years before Keatsâ€™s greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book.
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For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keatsâ€™s hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his â€” and Keatsâ€™s â€” neighborhood.
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Andrea Davis Pinkneyâ€™s lyrical narrative tells the inspiring story of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.
Country USA
Manufacturer Viking Books for Young Readers
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-11-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Viking Books for Young Readers
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-11-01
Format	Kindle eBook

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day

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