A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day

Pinkney, Andrea Davis (author.). Johnson, Steve, 1960- (illustrator.). Fancher, Lou, (illustrator.). Waites, Channie, (narrator.). Recorded Books, Inc. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1501959026
ISBN: 9781501959028
ISBN: 0425287688
ISBN: 9780425287682
Physical Description: 52 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
sound disc
print
Publisher: New York : Viking / Penguin Young Readers Group, [2017]
Copyright: ©2016

General Note:	Accompanying CD narrated by Channie Waites. Compact disc.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
Summary, etc.:	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.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 7-10.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader 3.8.