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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...