![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. It was the first book she encountered featuring an African American child like her. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better. ![]() 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. The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. Illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson ![]()
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