He held on to those pictures for 20 years. And that's how Peter was born. With its beautiful illustrations and sweet story, The Snowy Day was an instant hit. But there was also a backlash because ...

Peter, the little brown boy swathed in a bright-red snowsuit, was the kid I wanted to be. He was the star in Ezra Jack Keats’ classic children’s picture book, “The Snowy Day,” and his only ...

Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved 1962 book, “The Snowy Day,” is credited as the first mass-market children’s storybook to feature a black protagonist — a preschooler named Peter joyfully ...

Who was the inspiration for Peter, the little boy in the bright red snowsuit enjoying the snow? What was Ezra Jack Keats’s real name and why did he change it? What other books did he write and ...

Peter has just become old enough to venture ... because in the back of each one there are “Snowy Day” coloring activities, a word search, and some chances to think about and create your ...

Minnesota Opera’s production of “The Snowy Day” takes its audience into the world of the 1963 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book by author and mixed media artist Ezra Jack Keats.

But unlike that grief-filled piece, “The Snowy Day” is about joy ... voice to the internal world of the 7-year-old protagonist, Peter, and more fully fleshing out his relationships with ...

In A Poem for Peter, Andrea Davis Pinkney introduces young readers to Ezra Jack Keats, the author and illustrator behind The Snowy Day. The story begins with Keats' parents fleeing Warsaw ...