Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury

by Ezra Jack Keats

Book Overview

Ezra Jack Keats is widely acknowledged as one of the first people to feature realistic, friendly, multi-ethnic urban settings in his picture books-forever changing the landscape of children's literature in the process. Now this beautiful collection brings together nine of his best-loved stories, including the 1963 Caldecott Medal-winning book The Snowy Day and Caldecott Honor book Goggles , plus Whistle for Willie , Peter's Chair , Apt. 3 , and others...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670035866
• ISBN13: 9780670035861
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book honoring beloved author

This is a beautiful book honoring Keats. His stories are wonderful and deal with "real" kids and situations. Children love them. I bought a copy of this book to share with my granddaughter. She loved it so much that I left it with her and am purchasing another copy for my collection.

Brings back memories

This book is a beautiful collection of Keats' work. I grew up with all of these stories & this book brought back a lot of memories. Well worth it for children & adults.

Keats's Neighborhood

Wonderful collection of Ezra Jack Keats's stories! His stories and illustrations are some of the best of our times for young children! The colors are amazing and the characters are timeless.My children and now my grandchildren are enjoying his work.

Great Art!

This is an excellent culmination of stories for children as well as biography of the author. The artwork is amazing and creative. I remember reading these stories as a child and loving the creative illustrations. I have purchased this for my nephew's 6th birthday hoping he will enjoy the stories as well.

Wonderful Collection of Keat's Children's Stories

Ezra Jack Keats writes great stories for children. I read them to my children 35 years ago and read them to my grandchildren today. His books are fun to read and the pictures are a feast for the eyes.

Childhood Favorites

This book contains 10 of Ezra Jack Keats's wonderful stories. This is not cheap. (But worth every dime!) You just can't go wrong with this collection. It is a fine example of Keats's marvelous craft. One of the things I like about this book (and Keats's books generally) is that it portrays urban settings. As a little girl growing up in a rural Midwestern town, I honestly never noticed that the main character in Snowy Day was African-American, even though none of the kids I went to school with were. That fact was unimportant to me as a child, but I can see the value of it as an adult. Exposing our children to many cultures and races can only improve the way the next generation sees the world. From the bio at the end of the book: "Childhood, in his mind, was a colorblind experience." Keats wrote over a hundred books. It must have been hard to pick just 10 for this collection. I think you'll love the ones that were chosen, if you don't already.