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A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day
Contributor(s): Pinkney, Andrea Davis (Author), Johnson, Steve (Illustrator), Fancher, Lou (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0425287688     ISBN-13: 9780425287682
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Art
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Books & Libraries
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016011990
Age Level: 7-10
Grade Level: 2-5
Lexile Measure: 620(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 9.7" W x 10.8" L (1.30 lbs) 60 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2016
Booklist 10/01/2016 pg. 41
School Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 129
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2016
BookPage 11/01/2016
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2016
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2017 pg. 116
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 186502
Reading Level: 3.8   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.

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 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.

Andrea Davis Pinkney's lyrical narrative tells the inspiring story of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.

 
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