A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425287688
• ISBN13: 9780425287682
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.7" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5