![]() ![]() All the heroes in all the comics / were always as white as a winter sky.” This tour-de-force is illustrated brilliantly with acrylic, collage, and pencil artwork that gives a true sense of Keats’s own artwork. Peter of The Snowy Day makes several of what Pinkney describes as “peek-a-boo” appearances throughout this lyrical account of Keats’ life, “waving at the reader.” When Keats was working early in his career as a comic-book artist, for example: “The brown-sugar boy / in a blanket of white / began to ignite by what kids saw, / and didn’t see, / in the not-so-funny comics / Ezra was made to draw. The Snowy Day Winter Sequence Retelling Kindergarten & First Reading Created by Class of Kinders Winter time in the snow with a boy named Peter After reading this classic story, the Snow Day, by Ezra Jack Keat give your students an opportunity to do some retelling. Keats started out life as a poor Jewish boy in Brooklyn who dreamed of being an artist. Her ingenious poem is a celebration of both the character Peter and of his creator, Ezra Jack Keats. It was the first book she encountered featuring an African American child like her. ISBN: 978–0–425–28768–2 A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis PinkneyĪs a child in the 1960s, Andrea Davis Pinkney was affected profoundly by The Snowy Day. 4, the United States Postal Service will issue four stamps, part of the Forever series, featuring Peter, the little boy from Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day. Illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson ![]()
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