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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.

Author/creator Pinkney, Andrea Davis author.
Other author/creatorJohnson, Steve, 1960- illustrator.
Other author/creatorFancher, Lou, illustrator.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : Viking / Penguin Young Readers Group, 2016.
Copyright Notice ©2016
Description52 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Subject(s)
Abstract 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 (Works Progress Administration) 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (page 52).
Interest age level Ages 7-10.
Audience 620 Lexile
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2016011990
ISBN9780425287682 (hardback)
ISBN0425287688 (hardback)

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