Long before multicultural characters and themes were fashionable, Ezra Jack
Keats crossed social boundaries by being the first American picture-book maker
to give the urban child a central place in children 1/2s literature. In
Ezra Jack Keats: Artist and Picture-Book Maker author Brian Alderson
gives an account of the emergence and significance of Keats 1/2 books within the
context of his life.
Alderson shows how Keats 1/2...