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I loved this book! It tells the story of the author Ezra Jack Keats. His parents were Polish immigrants who settled in Brooklyn. Jacob (Jack) was born in 1916. A moving story of his desire to be an artist. He loved a series of photos from Life magazine of a charming brown skinned child. Twenty years later, he used the images to inspire his drawings for “The Snowy Day”.
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1. I usually take mine down after New Years. However, I leave a few Christmas mugs in circulation.

2. If I don't have to scoop it or go out in it (except to play), I'd say snow. But in reality a gentle rain is soothing.

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Through poetry the author tells the biography of Ezra Jack Keats, author of The Snowy Day and many other popular picture books. Well written with awesome illustrations and an inspirational story. This is one of my five star reads for the year.

I love how this is a biography in poem form. Occasionally kids can find biographies boring and lengthy and this allows it to be more fun

Publication Date: 2016
Intended For: Children
Character Dev: Yes
Proper Illustrations: Yes
Storyline: Poems telling the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day

A poem for Peter by Andrea David Pinkney illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher is a B picture book. In this poem book you‘ll learn about perseverance and Keats dreams. The book talks about his dreams and how it would get deferred before he could try to pursue them. I think this would be good for AS. EL-4 Link lesson topic to students‘ prior knowledge UDL- 2.3 support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols

An affectionate, fitting tribute, written in verse. It captures the feel of Keats's books perfectly, and tells this fascinating story in a unique way. And the art is completely amazing. It is an homage to the subjects, both Peter and Keats.

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Haven received The Snowy Day in December as her free Imagination Library book and that was also when I learned about A Poem for Peter, the story of the author and his inspiration for Peter written in lovely prose. I was thrilled to find this on the new bookshelf at our local library at the beginning of January.
An excellent read for children and adults!

Family book club night with these excellent books and vanilla milkshakes! We also made paper snowflakes for our winter ❄️ theme! #readbrightly #familybookclub

Yep that's my stuffed Peter. I love the Snowy Day so much and this book about the life is Ezra Jack Keats is excellent!

Gorgeously illustrated poem about the life of Ezra Jack Keats and the inspiration behind his Caldecott-winning classic, The Snowy Day.

Earlier this week we had our first and possibly only snow this year. I read Snowy Day to some die-hard storytime fans and was reminded again of its brilliance.
This is the story of its creator and how his life led him to illustrate his first picture book with an African-American boy, revolutionizing children's literature. It was just a story about a boy and snow in the city, but it turned a historical page and launched the career of Mr Keats.

"With you, Ezra tore off the blinders,
Yanked up the shades,
Revealed the brilliance
of a brown-bright day." ❤️

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