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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
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Keats, Ezra Jack -- Juvenile literature.
Keats, Ezra Jack. Snowy day.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Illustrators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature.
Boys, Black -- Juvenile literature.
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Keats, Ezra Jack -- Juvenile literature.
Keats, Ezra Jack. Snowy day.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Illustrators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature.
Boys, Black -- Juvenile literature.
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A
poem
for
Peter
: the
story
of
Ezra
Jack
Keats
and the
creation
of The
snowy
day
/ Andrea Davis Pinkney ; pictures by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson.
by
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Viking Books for Young Readers, c2016.
Call #:
813.54 K25p
Subjects
Keats
,
Ezra
Jack
-- Juvenile literature.
Keats
,
Ezra
Jack
.
Snowy
day
.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Illustrators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature.
Boys, Black -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780425287682
Description:
52 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
Summary:
A celebration of the extraordinary life of
Ezra
Jack
Keats
, creator of 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
Keats
's obvious talent, his father worried that
Ezra
'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
Keats
's greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book. For more than two decades,
Ezra
had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In
Keats
'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 and
Keats
's neighborhood. Andrea Davis Pinkney's lyrical narrative tells the inspiring
story
of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.
Other authors:
Johnson, Steve, 1960-
Fancher, Lou.
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