{"product_id":"a-poem-for-peter-the-story-of-ezra-jack-keats-and-the-creation-of-the-snowy-day","title":"A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day","description":"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day.\n\nThe 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.\n\nFor 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.\n\nAndrea 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0425287688\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0425287688.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Pinkney, Andrea Davis|Johnson, Steve|Fancher, Lou\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41547275829306,"sku":"DBV.0425287688.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0425287688-0.jpg?v=1784689684","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/a-poem-for-peter-the-story-of-ezra-jack-keats-and-the-creation-of-the-snowy-day","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}