First published 50 years ago, “The Snowy Day” is a gentle story that revels in the wonder of an urban snowfall. It also was quietly groundbreaking, both as what is widely considered the first ...

Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved 1962 book, “The Snowy Day,” is credited as the first mass-market children’s storybook to feature a black protagonist — a preschooler named Peter joyfully ...

Peter, the little brown boy swathed in a bright-red snowsuit, was the kid I wanted to be. He was the star in Ezra Jack Keats’ classic children’s picture book, “The Snowy Day,” and his only ...

In 1962 "The Snowy Day" broke the color barrier in mainstream children's book publishing. In 1963 it won the Caldecott Medal , the highest honor a children's book could win at that time.

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring “The Snowy Day,” one of the most beloved American children’s books of the 20th century, with a series of new postage stamps. Four new “forever” stamps ...

When Ezra Jack Keats died in 1983 in the early morning hours, his best friend Martin Pope, who’d held his hand as he passed, gazed at the skies above New York Hospital. They glowed a vivid or… ...

Amazon’s animated adaptation of children’s classic ‘The Snowy Day’ aims to become a fixture of holiday viewing like ‘Frosty the Snowman’ ...

The best way to enjoy “The Snowy Day and Other Stories” at Theatre of Youth is by first reading (or rereading or picking up for the 112th time) the delightful books by Ezra Jack Keats that ...

If, by any chance, you have never read the classic "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, do yourself, and any children you could share it with, a favor. Read it.

The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, was first published in 1962 and is regarded as the first major picture book for kids featuring Black people as lead characters, according ...

Minnesota Opera’s production of “The Snowy Day” takes its audience into the world of the 1963 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book by author and mixed media artist Ezra Jack Keats.