The Snowy Day

The Snowy Day

Infobox Book
name = The Snowy Day


image_caption =
author = Ezra Jack Keats
illustrator = Ezra Jack Keats
cover_artist =
country = United States
genre = Children's picture book
publisher =
release_date = 1962
media_type =
pages =
isbn = ISBN 0-14-050182-7

"The Snowy Day" is a popular children's book by award-winning children's author Ezra Jack Keats.

The book received the prestigious Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children in 1963.American Library Association: [http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottwinners/caldecottmedal.htm Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present] . URL accessed 10 May 2007.] It features a little African-American boy named Peter exploring his neighborhood after the first snowfall of the season.

The inspiration for Peter came from a "Life" magazine photo article from 1940, and Keats' desire to have minority children of New York as central characters in his stories. Peter appears in six more books growing from a small boy in "The Snowy Day" to pre-adolescence in "Letter to Amy".

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